Project Status: Complete

The Keeper Project is a public art and education initiative that seeks to revise the popular imagery around hip hop music and culture, which almost exclusively elevates male voices and attitudes while overlapping and erasing those of women and girls. The Keeper Project offers two primary interventions for the problem of gender inequity within hip hop practice, study, and documentation: a) a digital archival project that quantitatively and qualitatively maps women and girls' contributions to hip hop (an ongoing, not yet released project) and b) oral histories with women and girls in hip hop to amplify their voices and create a pipeline between our work and the next generation of hip hop practitioners, scholars, and fans.

Contributors to this project include Ashley Champagne (CDS Lead), Heather Cole, Andrew Majcher, Karen Eberhart, Laura Stokes, Cody Carvel, Elizabeth Yalkut, Tarika Sankar