our work

through communal happenings, strange fruit femmes offers free and accessible programming that centers the needs and desires of Black, Brown, and Indigenous artists while also celebrating their voices. through safe, intentional, and transformative programs for youth and adults, we offer opportunities for healing and liberation lead by creative processes and thought. our work and teachings prioritize and preserve the work of Black womanist pedagogy through political education, cultural criticism, sustainable arts and agriculture, and mind body activations.

community programs

black arts freedom school

black arts freedom school
soulful safespace sundays

soulful safespace sundays
a seat at the table : book club

a seat at the table : book club

soulful safespace sundays

soulful safespace sundays is centered around providing intentional space for creatives to gather in many different capacities and integrations, all while on sunday.

these engagements have looked like space for discourse over building community, grief spaces dedicated to breonna taylor and ma'khia bryant, space to workshop on building diy art spaces that dismantle unjust art systems, juneteenth retreats, open critiques, artist meetups, and more.

black arts freedom school

based on the 1960s mississippi freedom schools and Black arts repertory theater, this program was designed to help youth empower themselves beyond the limits of the traditional classroom in an effort to help them explore and articulate their own desires, demands, and questions.

through workshops led by local artists and farmers, freedom school workshops are for youth and family- offering the arts and sustainable agriculture as tools for self expression, imagination, and political engagement.

a seat at the table: book club

this program makes space for communal cultural theory through a Black feminist creative lens. texts chosen are works by Black authors + poets + theorists. discussions are inspired by highlighted passages that we or our community members offer to the space.  the space encourages folk to come as they are, and share what speaks to them.

previous books that have held us include, art on my mind; visual politics by bell hooks, the romare bearden reader, Black queer studies: a critical anthology, and in search of our mother’s garden by alice walker.

here we are. we are here. audio archive

here we are. we are here. is an alternative audio archive of oral storytelling and cultural preservation. using audio collage assemblage to communicate memories, the archive illuminates paths forward and holds care for the presence of Black and Indigenous artistic spirituality.

here we are. we are here. is coming together — an honoring of the words + sounds + spaces that hold us. using the legacy of Black, Brown, and Indigenous, music and literature, compositions celebrate and are in conversation with the many influences of our peers and ancestors' work on the spectrum of contemporary Black Artistic life in regards to spirit and its place in our society.

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