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Black Craftspeople Digital Archive

Craft Research Fund Grant

2025

Craft Lessons: Documenting Craftwork at HBCUs

"The Craft Lessons: Documenting Craftwork at Historically Black Colleges and Universities” is a research project that seeks to answer three key questions: Which HBCUs produced objects? What types of objects were being produced? What remains of these objects today? This project is a craft history of HBCUs.

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Murfreesboro, TN

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Selected works

Claflin School of Art – Claflin College (Orangeburg, S.C.). Annual Catalog of Claflin University, 1898–1899. Orangeburg, South Carolina: Berry & Howell, 1898.

Claflin Manual Training Class — "Manual training shop at Claflin University, Orangeburg, S.C." South Carolina Orangeburg, 1899. [?] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/93506649/

Claflin Sewing Department – Claflin College (Orangeburg, S.C.). Annual Catalog of Claflin University, 1897–1898. Orangeburg, South Carolina: Berry & Howell, 1897.

Claflin Cabinetmaking Class – Claflin College (Orangeburg, S.C.). Annual Catalog of Claflin University, 1912–1913. Orangeburg, South Carolina: Claflin Electric Press, 1912.