Organized around literal lunch tables, our sessions provide both physical space and allotted time for important discussions, bringing together a diverse group of people and fostering candid conversations. BLT roundtable sessions provide both physical space and focused time for interdisciplinary and intergenerational discussions, bringing together a diversity of community members and fostering candid conversation. Our primary aim is the production of discursive sites, wherein cultural producers and their communities can engage in critical dialogue on topics directly affecting our global community. These conversations will be recorded and become part of our digital archive.

As part of our ongoing mission to amplify the visibility of Black artists on Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons, we invite the Chicago community to get their portraits taken by our featured photographer, Natasha Moustache at BLT’s Photobooth. Portraits are complimentary and are made available under an open license for free use and distribution. Images from past events can be seen here.

Organized around literal lunch tables, our sessions provide both physical space and allotted time for important discussions, bringing together a diverse group of people and fostering candid conversations. At the Artists Roundtable, our founding initiative, we curate Black cultural producers into roundtable discussions. By generating a dialogue among Black artists, in partnership with arts institutions, we are highlighting contingencies in the artworld already in play. By involving institutions, artists, art historians, curators, collectors in this dialogue we are creating a work in which all these actors have both a say and something at stake. Writing the record is everyone’s charge. These conversations will be recorded and become part of our digital archive.