<img width="640" height="360" src="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/FashionCultureFutures_Press2-1024x576.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" srcset="https://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/FashionCultureFutures_Press2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/FashionCultureFutures_Press2-300x169.jpg 300w, https://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/FashionCultureFutures_Press2-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/FashionCultureFutures_Press2-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/FashionCultureFutures_Press2-170x96.jpg 170w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-attachment-id="40222" data-permalink="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2021/06/02/fashion-culture-futures-symposium/fashionculturefutures_press2/" data-orig-file="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/FashionCultureFutures_Press2.jpg" data-orig-size="2560,1440" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="FashionCultureFutures_Press2" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/FashionCultureFutures_Press2-300x169.jpg" data-large-file="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/FashionCultureFutures_Press2-1024x576.jpg" /><p>Fashion, Culture, Futures: African American Ingenuity, Activism, and Storytelling is a two-part symposium co-organized by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. Presented virtually Thursday, June 17, and Thursday, Oct. 21, both programs bring together academics, designers, critics, models, artists, activists and others to share new...</p><p>The post <a href="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2021/06/25/fashion-culture-futures-african-american-ingenuity-activism-and-storytelling/">Fashion, Culture, Futures Symposium</a> first appeared on <a href="https://www.cooperhewitt.org">Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum</a>.</p>