COLLECTIVITY: A Zine Making Workshop On Abolition with Ola Ronke Akinmowo

Ola Ronke "Fox" Akinmowo is a writer, cultural worker and interdisciplinary artist who works in collage, papermaking, printmaking, book arts and stop motion animation. She is also a Set Decorator for Film and TV and the Creator/Director of The Free Black Women's Library, a social art project based

in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. The library is a literary hub, social site, reading room and community care space that features a collection of over five thousand books written by Black women & Black non-binary authors, a period pantry, a free store, backyard garden, reading club, a weekly book swap and a wide array of free public programs. All ages, races and genders are welcome to use the space to read, write, work, play, rest and daydream. Folks are also welcome to use the book collection for research, pleasure and inspiration, as well as attend all of the workshops,

classes and teach-ins offered. Ola has received notable artist fellowships, grants and residencies from New York Foundation for the Arts, Women's Studio Workshop, BRIC Arts, Robert Blackburn Printmaking Shop, the Brooklyn Arts Council and the Metropolitan Museum. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Hyperallergic, Teen Vogue and BUST magazine. She is a proud mom, union member, busybody, book fairy, plant fiend and dance machine.

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