What starts as a game becomes a deeper conversation. @chelseaaf1 shares a project she created to spark reflection on Black history, memory, and everyday knowledge. From BLT Live. Full video in bio.
"If there were a movie about slavery with an all white cast... would you watch it?"
@chelseaaf1 asks the real questions on BLT Live and reflects on their time at @skowheganart during our series featuring candid conversations with Black artists. Full talk in bio.
Meet @chelseaaf1 Artist, educator, and cultural thinker in conversation with BLT Live, our series spotlighting leading Black artists and their practices. Full talk at link in bio. #blacklunchtable #blacklunchtableevents #bltlive #chelseaaflowers #artisttalk
Westside Historical Collective is excited to invite you to an upcoming workshop we are hosting in partnership with the Black Lunch Table and Healing Illinois at Legler Regional Library located at 115 S. Pulaski Rd.
These sessions are designed to support community members in becoming memory workers - people who help preserve and document their community’s stories and culture.
🗓 May 9 🗓 May 28
Spots are limited — register now:
🔗 Link in bio
tonight is the night! Are you ready? Tonight Monday, April 27th, at 7 pm (EST) we will be hosting our next BLT Live! “Chelsea’s Alternative Trivia” hosted by Chelsea A. Flowers, is a trivia style game that tests for social, cultural, and emotional knowledge. Aimed at building community through play and cultural understanding, we invite viewers to engage and participate in this next iteration of BLT Live!
We appreciate your patience! We're excited to announce that on Monday, April 27th, at 7 pm (EST) we will be hosting our next BLT Live! “Chelsea’s Alternative Trivia” hosted by Chelsea A. Flowers, is a trivia style game that tests for social, cultural, and emotional knowledge. Aimed at building community through play and cultural understanding, we invite viewers to engage and participate in this next iteration of BLT Live!
#BLTLIVE #ChelseaAFlowers #AlternativeTrivia #Blackartists
We’re excited to announce keondra freemyn as our guest archivist for our upcoming Queer Legacies Project workshop on March 18th from 2-5pm at the SAGE Center Harlem!
keondra bills freemyn is a writer and archivist focusing on digital archives, social movements, and Black cultural production. She is Co-Executive Director, Archives + Strategy at Black Lunch Table, an independent oral history archive centering visual artists, and founder of Black Women Writers Project, an archival initiative highlighting the contributions of Black women and gender expansive writers to the literary canon. keondra is a Society of American Archivists Digital Archives Specialist and has worked on archival projects centering marginalized communities with Project STAND, Library of Congress, Smithsonian, New York Public Library and DC Public Library. We’re excited to have you with us, keondra!
What to bring:
🖼️ Photos, letters, journals, VHS, Hi-8, CD/DVD, film, slides, or any cherished items that help tell your story
📝 Anything you want to preserve or document for future generations
📍Location:
SAGE Center Harlem
220 W 143rd St
New York, NY 10030
Let’s make sure our legacies live on—reserve your spot now by visiting the 🔗 in our bio!
Queer Legacies Project (QLP) is an in-person workshop series developed by the American LGBTQ+ Museum in partnership with The Feminist Institute and SAGE
#QueerLegaciesProject #LGBTQHistory #LGBTQIA #americanlgbtqmuseum
Have you explored our Roundtable Archives? If you haven't you're missing out! It's filled with rich conversations between community members. The wisdom and insight found within these conversations is what propels us to keep this work going.
Did you catch our last roun d of Museum by Mail? If not, you’re in luck! We’re bringing it back! We have a little surprise from our table to yours( and it’s FREE .99!). We’re mailing something that celebrates art, memory, and connection—in true BLT fashion.
Sign up using the link in our bio! And keep an eye on your mailbox.
Skin Tight considers how material holds memory; how fabric, stretch, and surface can speak to identity and embodiment.
The exhibition, on view now until July 25, 2026, continues a longer artistic conversation around elasticity, tension, and the politics of form. Artists like Senga Nengudi and Maren Hassinger helped shape this language decades earlier, using industrial and everyday materials to examine presence and vulnerability.
We’ll be tracing those connections next. Stay with us.
#BlackLunchTable #SkinTight #BlackArt
Wait… you’re telling us the legendary sculptor Elizabeth Catlett is the grandmother of Naima Mora from America’s Next Top Model?!
Elizabeth Speaks brings Catlett’s voice and legacy into focus, tracing the life of an artist who shaped 20th-century sculpture and printmaking with unflinching clarity about race, gender, and justice. And yes! Catlett created two sculptures titled Naima, named after her granddaughter, who was herself named after John Coltrane’s iconic composition.
We love discovering these intergenerational connections. They remind us that Black artistic legacy is layered, living, and closer than we think.
Learn more @elizabeth_speaks_the_film
#BlackLunchTable #ElizabethCatlett #NaimaMora #ElizabethSpeaks #
