In Conversation: Asmaa Walton of Detroit’s Black Art Library, OlaRonke Akinmowo of The Free Black Woman’s Library with Myron Beasley, Scholar, Curator and Performance Artist

On the occasion of The Drawing Center's current exhibition Certainly An Act: Works on Paper by Pope L., join us for a special conversation and book swap during the residency of Detroit's Black Art Library in our bookshop.

Asmaa Walton of Black Art Library will be joined by OlaRonke Akinmowo of The Free Black Woman’s Library and Myron M. Beasley, PhD. Associate Professor of American Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies at Bates College for a conversation on the role of libraries in the African American Community as spaces for refuge and restoration, power and purpose.