“The William & Mary Bray School Lab uncovers, documents, preserves, and shares broadly the history and legacies of the Williamsburg Bray School (1760-1774) and its students.”

The William & Mary Bray School Lab is a unit of W&M Strategic Cultural Partnerships

May 10, 2024 Edition

Dear Margaret,

Greetings from the William & Mary Bray School Lab, and welcome back to Bray School Bulletins! Happy (?) final exams to William & Mary students!

We are very pleased to share the latest news and updates with you from the W&M Bray School Lab...

In This Bulletin:

Cultural Heritage Immersion Program 2024
W&M and K-12 Collaborations Teach Untold Stories
Oral History and the Bray School | May 18
A Better Life For Their Children: Rosenwald School Exhibit at VMHC | May 25

From Our Partners:

Colonial Williamsburg offers free admission for veterans and military families, May 24-27

Cultural Heritage Immersion Program 2024

The cohort comes together!

Strategic Cultural Partnerships is proud to announce the 2024 cohort of W&M students participating in the Cultural Heritage Immersion Program, an experiential learning opportunity for W&M students to gain work experience in the museum and cultural heritage site industry! This year, we are working with fourteen students at eight sites in and around the Hampton Roads area, and we look forward to profiling them for you throughout the summer.

Emma Rossetini, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Archaeological Collections
Shane Lea, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Collection Curation
Sophie Hatfield, Mariners' Museum Curation
Katelyn Yen, James Monroe's Highland Descendants Day
Jaenya Cooper, James Monroe's' Highland Descendants Day
Charlotte Russell, James Monroe's Highland Public Archaeology
Lauren Meyer, James Monroe's Highland Public Archaeology
Olivia Blackshire, W&M Bray School Lab Oral History
Eliza Fernandez, W&M Bray School Lab Oral History
Jack Weisgerber, Strategic Cultural Partnerships Educational Media
Jada Luxene, Strategic Cultural Partnerships Engagement
Katie Shiflett, Wren Building
Clear Namer-Luna, Cuba Media Project

W&M and K-12 collaborations teach untold stories

Area elementary and middle school students engaged in history-making with the William & Mary Bray School Lab

The William & Mary Bray School Lab and Strategic Cultural Partnerships recently completed two year-long creative research projects with K-12 students in the Hampton Roads area: a choreographed dance event entitled The Williamsburg Bray School: A Story Worth Telling led by Kristen Hill and the students at the Academy for Discovery at Lakewood and a project called Turning Points in History with Christine McBee and her fourth-grade students at Matthew Whaley Elementary School.

Both projects advanced the Lab’s goals to uncover, document, preserve and share broadly the history and legacies of the Williamsburg Bray School; both projects also aligned with William & Mary’s on-going Year of the Arts celebration. Read more about our K-12 collaborations here.

Watch Williamsburg Bray School: A Story Worth Telling here.

Oral History and the Bray School | May 18

W&M Bray School Oral Historian Tonia Merideth to deliver public lecture

W&M Bray School Lab Oral Historian Tonia Merideth will be joining the Rediscovering the Bray School lecture series at Colonial Williamsburg to provide an overview of the W&M Bray School Lab oral history project. Art museum admission is required. The lecture will take place at 1:00 PM on May 18 at Hennage Auditorium.

Learn more about the lecture series here

A Better Life For Their Children: Rosenwald School Exhibit at VMHC | May 25

The Virginia Museum of History & Culture will be opening a new exhibit focused on Rosenwald schools in Virginia - a look at one of the most transformative educational initiatives in American history with Booker T. Washington and Julius Rosenwald developed a program: build thousands of schools to provide education for Black children across the segregated South.

W&M Bray School Lab Oral Historian Tonia Merideth was tapped by leadership at VMHC to create oral histories for the project.

The exhibition runs May 25, 2024 to April 20, 2025.

Click here to learn more.

Photo credit to Encyclopedia Virginia.

Colonial Williamsburg offers free admission for veterans and military families, May 24-27

This Memorial Day Weekend, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation continues its rich tradition of military outreach by offering free admission to all active-duty military, reservists, retirees, veterans, National Guard members and their immediate dependents May 24-27. Special military-themed programming will be offered on Monday, May 27.

Click here for more information.

Photo courtesy of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.

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