{"id":1653,"date":"2019-10-29T08:51:52","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T12:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diap-mfa.us\/diap\/?p=1653"},"modified":"2019-10-31T15:58:09","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T19:58:09","slug":"11-07-olaronke-akinmowo-the-free-black-womens-library-tfbwl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/art.ccny.cuny.edu\/diap\/?p=1653","title":{"rendered":"11\/07 &#8211; OlaRonke Akinmowo: The Free Black Women\u2019s Library (TFBWL)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us for a lecture by the\u00a0artist <strong>OlaRonke Akinmowo<\/strong> and her work with <a href=\"https:\/\/thefreeblackwomanslibrary.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Free Black Women\u2019s Library (TFBWL)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Location: Shepard Hall, Room 408<\/p>\n<p>The DIAP MFA Studio<\/p>\n<p>Time 12:30PM \u2013 1:45PM<\/p>\n<p>The presentation is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>OlaRonke Akinmowo is the artist, scholar, and librarian behind the<a href=\"https:\/\/thefreeblackwomanslibrary.tumblr.com\/\"> Free Black Women\u2019s Library<\/a>\u00a0(TFBWL), a mobile and interactive installation committed to sharing literature by Black women authors across genres, and cultivating new conversations about accessibility, representation, and bibliophilia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/461668\/free-black-womens-library-nyabf-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">An extensive interview<\/a> with OlaRonke Akinmowo, which provides some background on her work, has appeared\u00a0 in <a href=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/461668\/free-black-womens-library-nyabf-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hyperallergic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/art.ccny.cuny.edu\/diap\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/OlaRonke2.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1654 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/art.ccny.cuny.edu\/diap\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/OlaRonke2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us for a lecture by the\u00a0artist OlaRonke Akinmowo and her work with The Free Black Women\u2019s Library (TFBWL). Location: Shepard Hall, Room 408<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1654,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-lecture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/art.ccny.cuny.edu\/diap\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/art.ccny.cuny.edu\/diap\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/art.ccny.cuny.edu\/diap\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.ccny.cuny.edu\/diap\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.ccny.cuny.edu\/diap\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1653"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/art.ccny.cuny.edu\/diap\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1657,"href":"https:\/\/art.ccny.cuny.edu\/diap\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions\/1657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.ccny.cuny.edu\/diap\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/art.ccny.cuny.edu\/diap\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.ccny.cuny.edu\/diap\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.ccny.cuny.edu\/diap\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}