Martha Diaz, Syreeta Gates, and Adeerya Johnson join in conversation about "Archiving Hip Hop" at The Museum at FIT fashion symposium Fresh, Fly, and Fabulous: Fifty Years of Hip Hop Style held on February 24, 2023. IMAGES ARE NOT SHOWN DUE TO COPYRIGHT CONCERNS.

The symposium drew on the expert voices of hip hop style from journalists, designers, and stylists to curators, professors, and archivists who explored topics that center hip hop fashion as a force that has shaped American culture for five decades. Talks and panels focused on the role of jewelry, custom design, media, collecting, and designer brands in amplifying hip hop’s impact on fashion and society. This symposium was held in conjunction with the exhibition "Fresh, Fly, and Fabulous: Fifty Years of Hip Hop Style" (February 8–April 23, 2023).

Martha Diaz is an award-winning media producer, archivist, curator, educator, and founder of the Hip-Hop Education Center. A graduate of NYU's Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program, Diaz has worked on archival projects with Parkwood Entertainment and Tupac Shakur Estate, to name a few. She is an inaugural Fellow at the Center for Creative and Entertainment Arts at Virginia State University and curator/archivist at the Universal Hip Hop Museum.

Syreeta Gates is committed to immortalizing hip hop so that it lasts forever. She is an art collector, archivist, and founder of The Gates Preserve. She produces live culinary competitions that bridge hip hop with food and beverage, elevates hip hop culture through LEGO, and celebrates Black life as a filmmaker and writer. Gates holds degrees in urban youth culture and moving image archiving and preservation.

Adeerya Johnson is a PhD student, hip-hop feminist scholar and the digital collections archivist of the early hip-hop collection at the Museum of Pop Culture. Johnson is working on a two-year grant funded project where she archives hip-hop artifacts from 1975 to 2001 for the museum's online portal to provide the public access to over 1,300 hip-hop artifacts.

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