The Free Black Women’s Library engages in multiple partnerships and collaborations with artists, writers, cultural workers, art institutions and organizations from across the country. The Library offers a wide array of workshops, activities and events that provide and inspire counter narratives around race, gender & culture. Past & Present Partners Include:
TFBWL BRANCHES The Free Black Women’s Library supports Black women artists, scholars and cultural workers in the creation of independent library branches in their communities. There are currently 5 TFBWL branches doing beautiful work in Atlanta, Georgia, Detroit, Michigan, Houston, Texas, Los Angeles, California and Richmond, Virginia.
MUSEUMS MOCADA Museum : Book Installation & discussion of THICK featuring writer Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom 2019, Tribute to Toni Morrison and SULA book discussion 2019 MOCADA HOUSE on Governors Island: Long term Book Installation & weekly events that included a discussion on the Politics of Pleasure and PLEASURE ACTIVISM by Adrienne Marie Brown, a day of trivia themed games inspired by the art, music, books & culture of Black womanhood Studio Museum in Harlem : Book Installation & Short Story workshop 2018, Book Installation & Black Celebration featuring poet, Tai Freedom Ford 2016 Brooklyn Museum : Building Black institutions Presentation 2018 & Tribute to Toni Morrison 2019 The Morgan Library & Museum : Curated Betye Saar Book List, Virtual Black Art Talks 2020 MOMA PS 1 : Biblio Installation & Presentation on Black Feminist Themes in Music 2018, Trans Day of Remembrance Soundscape, 2020 Museum of the City of New York : Biblio Installation & Presentation on Social Art Practice 2019 Museum of Women’s Resistance : A Black Brunch & Afro Feminist Book Reading 2018
ARTS & CULTURE ORGANIZATIONS Weeksville Heritage Center : Women’s History Month - Book Installation & Discussion on the book, Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker 2017. The Concord Baptist Church of Christ : Book Installation & Discussion on the book, All About Love by bell hooks 2016. The Laundromat Project : Artist Fellowship 2017, Bed-Stuy Field Day - Community Garden Book Installation 2018, Artist Residency 2019, Artist Grant/Short Story Time Video Series, 2020 Culture Push: Fellowships for Utopian Practice 2016, Biblio Installation & Artist Presentation 2017/2018 Brooklyn Public Library : Public Reading of Beloved by Toni Morrison Brooklyn Arts Council: Community Arts Grant 2018 National Women's Studies Association: Book Installation & Workshop on Building Black Feminist Communities, 2017 EFA Project Space: Long Term Book Installation in CURRICULUM Art Exhibit, 2019 Black Lives Matter NYC: Long Term Book Installation at Afro Punk Music Festival 2016/2017 Printed Matter NY Art Book Fair: Book Installation & Audre Lorde Poetry workshop, 2019 Nurture Art Gallery: Afro Futurism Workshop for Middle Schoolers, 2016 Octavia E Butler Legacy Network: Octavia Taught Me Workshop at OEB Conference 2017, Parable Series Book Discussions featuring Dr. Ayana Jamieson & Dr. Moya Bailey 2020 3 Dot Zine: Book Installation & Pop Up Shop at COMMUNION Black Art Fair at Playground Coffee Shop 2020 462 Halsey Community Garden : Book Installation & book discussion featuring Dr. Aimee Meredith Cox (SHAPESHIFTERS) & Nicole Dennis-Benn (HERE COMES THE SUN) Press Press: Fundraiser/Sponsorship for Sister Outsider Relief Grant 2020 Brooklyn Art Book Fair: Book Installation & Pop Up Shop 2018, 2019, Virtual Reading & Analysis of the short story, NIGHT WOMEN by Edwidge Danticat 2020 Wendy’s Subway: “UnEarthing” Residency/Long Term Book Installation with weekly workshops featuring authors, Kaityln Greenidge, Ibi Zoboi, Kiini Salaam 2016, “Your Silence Will Not Protect You” - Audre Lorde Reading Group 2018, Black Feminist Praxis Reading Group 2019 Bedford Stuyvesant YMCA: Book Installation & Book Discussion on BEHOLD THE DREAMERS by Imbolo Mbue 2018 Bailey’s Cafe: Book Installation & a conversation on BLACK PANTHER/Exploring the Black Imagination 2018 Brooklyn Movement Center : Book Installation & conversation on Street Harassment with NO DISRESPECT Audre Lorde Project: Book Installation at Bed Stuy Pride Festival, Von King Park 2016, 2017 Allied Media Conference: Book Installations and Workshops presented on Radical Archives & Libraries 2016, Themes & Explorations in Black Women’s Literature 2017, Octavia Taught Me: 12 Lessons from the Parable Series by Octavia Butler 2019, Rituals & Altar Building 2019, Black Radical Imagination 2020 Sanctuary Art Gallery: Book Installation & Book Discussion featuring Dr. Imani Perry on her book, LOOKING FOR LORRAINE, 2018
Artists & Cultural Workers Black Quantum Futurist Collective: Installation and Discussion on Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, 2017 DJ Monday Blue: Soundscape Designer for Black Feminist Dance Party, 2020 DJ Reborn: Soundscape Designer for Black Feminist Dance Party, 2020 Damali Abrams: co presenter for Black Radical Imagination Workshop at AMC 2020 Khalif Thompson: co presenter for Black Radical Imagination Workshop at AMC 2020 Sensei Beverly Bradley/UnderGround Physique: Juneteenth Celebration: Free Self Defense Workshop for Black Women & Femmes, 2020 Taja Lindley: Book Installation & Pop Up shop at Colored Girls Marketplace, New Women Space, 2018 Harriet’s Apothecary : Book Installation & workshop on Self Care as a Political Praxis, 2019 Busayo : Library Presentation Cultural Ownership & the Complexity of African Textiles, 2017 Tsedaye Makonnen: Curator for Art of the Living Archive, Washington Project for the Arts 2020
