Current programs
Microgrants
African American Digital and Experimental Humanities (AADHum) is excited to offer $500 microgrants to support student creativity at the intersections of Black study, art, and technology. These awards are open to undergraduate and graduate students across the University System of Maryland who are experimenting with new ways to think, make, and share work about Black life and culture. Projects may take many forms: digital art, short films, creative coding, sound...
Splash Fellows
One of AADHum's core tenets is that there is still so much to learn from Black intellectuals historical commitments to creativity as a form of creative problem solving in the name of knowledge creation. The Splash Fellows program is for emergent and established designers, craftspeople, and makers interested in working with AADHum's fabrication space to create new digital works. We invite you to join us in creating new digital artifacts...
Race + Experimental Design Unit Fellowship
More information coming soon!
Kitchen Studios
Before the sandbox or studio, there was the kitchen. The kitchen is a site for experimentation, be it made from necessity, desire, or somewhere in between. The Kitchen Studios program invites members of the UMD community to host their own crafting / experimental / digital workgroup at AADHum. Come sew a quilt or weave some circuits. Gather a group to help you program your digital narrative, or to print and...
Creative Computing Collaboratory
AADHum strives to make technologies relevant and accessible to all communities. As such, we have partnered with the Hyattsville Branch Library and Bladensburg Branch Library to provide beginner-friendly creative computing workshops to the Teen Action Group (TAG), a community-based service learning program for Prince George’s County teens. These workshops incorporate design, physical computing (basic electronics), and coding to teach students how to understand, build, and critique computing systems that they...
Past Programs
The AADHum Scholars Program
The AADHum Scholars Program (tASP) is a multifaceted program designed toward the individual nature of any given scholar or team's relationship to their intellectual...
AADHum Residencies Program
As an important companion to tASP, the AADHum Residencies Program provides humanities-centered scholars and artists with financial, conceptual, and technical support toward the implementation...
The Graduate AADHum Scholars Program
Another companion to our larger tASP programming, the Graduate AADHum Scholars Program (tGASP) is a multifaceted offering designed toward the individual nature of any...
Social Media Corps
The Social Media Corps (SMC) program is a short-term fellowship for undergraduate, graduate, and post-doctoral students. This 3-week summer program includes access to design...
Extension Grant
This one goes out to the 2.0's, the post-peer review signoffs, the project scaffolds with legs… Digital and experimental projects often evolve over time,...