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30 Years of Scholarship: A Time Series of Spelman Research DataAs Spelman Research Day celebrates its 30th year, the members of the D.O.P.E. Arts collective have curated a mural that serves as an interactive and artistic data visualization highlighting the scholarship and contributions of our commun...

This project incorporates healthy coping mechanisms for students who struggle with non-clinical anxiety through the use of a Virtual Reality(VR) application. Using VR, instead of a traditional application, allows the student to be fully immersed in a calming environment that projects a subdued tone....

This research positions dance as ideology for embodying Black culture while dismissng Black bodies. Through cultural appropriation, non-Black dancers have increasingly begun to imitate and impersonate Black aesthetics in the post-modern dance era, most notably in commercialized dance. Based on a soc...

Elly and Zelle--an original play by Maxine Ford--was created for elementary school students and discusses the complexities of friendship--especially those that occur when proper communication does not happen. This story follows Elly, an elephant, and Zelle, a gazelle, who are on a mission to achieve...