Black Lunch Table’s (BLT) primary aim is the production of discursive sites, wherein artists and local community members engage in dialogue on a variety of critical issues. BLT mobilizes a democratic rewriting of contemporary cultural history by animating discourse around and among the people living it. First staged in 2005 at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture artist residency, the project has grown by way of contributions from and collaborations with artists, digital humanities researchers, and Wikipedians. BLT currently includes two roundtable series’, an online oral history archive, and a Wikipedia initiative. Much like its creation of physical spaces that foster community and generate critical dialogue, BLT creates a digital space for art, Black studies and social justice issues.
Black Lunch Table
Black Lunch Table Wikimedia edit-a-thon at 2019 Nashville REAL Symposium, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 2019.
Black Lunch Table Wikimedia edit-a-thon at The New School Centennial Festival, The New School, New York, NY 2019.
Black Lunch Table at the Black Artists Retreat, Chicago, 2014.
Black Lunch Table’s First Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY 2015
2007
The Andy Warhol Photographic Legacy Program was launched in 2007 in celebration of the Foundation’s 20th Anniversary. This unprecedented program donated over 28,500 photographs by Andy Warhol to educational institutions across the United States. More than 180 college and university museums, galleries and art collections throughout the nation participated in the program, each receiving a curated selection of original Polaroid photographs and gelatin silver prints.