A Reflective Statement by Nora (Egloff) Zimmerman & Elaine Stomber This project focused on the digitization and digital curation of a collection of oral history interviews with local manufacturing, steel, textile, and mining industry workers, which were originally conducted…
Category: LVEHC Digital Archive
Touchstone Theatre Digital Archive
The work of archiving half of Touchstone’s extensive digital, document and object collection was completed in April 2021 and resulted in archiving over 4 terabytes of video and 40 gigabytes of documents and photos, secured costumes, set designs, and large…
DeSales Students Animate LVEHC Digital Archive Content
In Karen Ruggles’ CS-270/TV-340: Multimedia course, students are introduced to motion graphics and compositing. One of the projects focuses on kinetic typography, which is often used in short form media such as advertising, social media visuals, and music videos. For…
New Exhibit: “40 Years of Public Health in the Lehigh Valley LGBT Community”
COMING SOON! A new virtual exhibit from the Lehigh Valley LGBT Community Archive will feature oral histories that reflect 40 years of public health from the HIV/AIDS epidemic to the COVID-19 pandemic. The exhibit launches on Monday, March 15!
Oral History Collections Funded by LVEHC Shine Light on Local LGBT History and Stories
With funding from the LVEHC, two oral history projects have recently been completed to chronicle pivotal experiences of the local LGBT community in the past half-century. These projects were made possible due to collaborations between the Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center,…
Constructing a Feature Documentary
A Reflective Blog by FilmMaker Drew Swedberg Following what has been an incredibly rigorous, collaborative, and rewarding semester that blended the final leg of production on “In Love, In Memory,” and the early stages of post-production, we have arrived at…
Digital Forums Discuss “Race and Space” in the Lehigh Valley
On October 14th and 21st, the LVEHC hosted a series of digital discussions moderated by Claudia Volpe. These discussions focused on the topic of “Race and Space in the Lehigh Valley,” with the first forum focused on “Where We Are…
“Columbus in the Crosshairs: Navigating Public Symbolism in Art”
Wednesday, July 15th at 5:00pm Zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/LVEHC-Digital-Forum Meeting ID: 717 355 4988 Access by phone: (646) 876-9923 A panel discussion examining the intersection of public art, history, and social justice. At this moment of social and political unrest, Christopher…
Documentary Pulse: How a Film Moves with the World
A Refleciton by Drew Swedberg We entered the 2020 Spring semester with momentum, coming off a full year [2019] of research, production, and collaboration. Process-centered work, relational work, that felt alive in the day-to-day and increasingly ever-present in our lives.…
Covid-19 and Poverty in Easton: a Digital Discussion
Join us for the Covid-19 and Poverty in Easton: a Digital Discussion on June 3 at 6:30pm A panel discussion exploring poverty in Easton, PA in recent history as well as the short- and long-term impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on…