Bringing a modern touch to history․
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The Westfield Center for Historical Keyboard Studies, a national resource based at Cornell University, serving professionals and the public for the advancement of keyboard music since 1979.
The Diversity & Belonging: Unsung Keyboard Studies conference, hosted by the Westfield Center and the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance, in partnership with the Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards, the Sphinx Organization, the African American Cultural & Historical Museum of Washtenaw County, and the Michigan Theatre welcomed audiences to an in-person and online dialogue among keyboard scholars, performers, and instrument makers to expand and redefine the history of what it means to #LookLikeAKeyboardist.
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Print poster for the Diversity & Belonging: Unsung Keyboard Stories conference
Website banner for the Diversity & Belonging: Unsung Keyboard Stories conferenceQuartercards highlighting the Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards (2021 and 2022)
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Detailed + Modern + Bold + Distinct keyboard elements
Our communities face crises of diversity and belonging, racial violence, sexual and gender harassment, and other forms of bigotry in both old and new forms. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated these tensions and complicated our responses; at the same time, it has ushered in a new paradigm of virtual connection and digital presence that enables an unprecedented degree of inclusivity. Schools of music, concert halls, and cultural institutions around the world are questioning long histories of exclusion, and artists are newly empowered to recover and amplify the voices of historically marginalized groups.
