an African American woman in a black dress with a big white ruffle — Elayne Jones

Feminist Futures Fellows: Grace Wang and Julie Wyman

September 08, 2020

This blog is being promoted as part of the Public Impact Research Initiative. Grace Wang, Department of American Studies and Julie Wyman, Department of Cinema and Digital Media received grant funding to produce INSTRUMENTAL: THE ELAYNE JONES STORY, a strategic impact media project and campaign aimed at fostering diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the field of classical music.

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*This article was written by the Feminist Research Institute on August 27, 2020

"We're proud to introduce you to the work of our 2019-2020 cohort, the Feminist Collaboratory Fellows. The year's research theme is Feminist Futures. We asked each fellow to participate in a video or written project to display their work and explore the theme further. This is the third installment in the series.

Instrumental: The Elayne Jones Project –FRI Fellows Grace Wang and Julie Wyman in Conversation

On May 29th, Anna Ward joined two of this year’s FRI faculty fellows, Grace Wang (American Studies) and Julie Wyman (Cinema and Digital Media) for a discussion of the documentary film they’re working on, Instrumental: The Elayne Jones Project.

Funded in part by FRI, Wang and Wyman’s film profiles the life and legacy of Elayne Jones, an accomplished timpanist and the first African American percussionist to hold a principal position in a major symphony orchestra.

Watch our interview with Wang and Wyman now: