ABOUT

WHO WE ARE

The Weavers Project bridges art, culture, movement building, and resource mobilization to support the building of a world where radical care, imagination, racial and economic justice, and sustainability are centered. As feminists, we are dedicated to transforming intergenerational harms caused and perpetuated by gendered and racial capitalism throughout our programming and practices. We are a multi-racial, multi-generational, and multi-class community, working to live our vision for a better world through our everyday actions and leadership. In 2016, The Weavers Project launched its first program, the Weavers Fellowship, in response to the under-representation of funding for arts and culture, Black-led, and US Southern-based organizing.

OUR BELIEFS AND VISION

We believe that with feminism(s) at the center:

  • We heal lineages of personal, social, and economic trauma.

  • We resource one another to step into leadership, creative practice, and vision. 

  • We look at our lives and work as sites of transformation. 

  • We practice building communities of resource sharing.

WHAT WE DO

The Weavers Project supports radical imagination, peer learning, and movement-building.  Through our ongoing programs, including the Black Feminist Artist Fellowship (BFAF) and residency at Stoneroot, the Weavers Project explores some of the most critical questions facing this moment: How do we resource and sustain ourselves? Our movements? Our environments? We welcome our community to share ideas, practices, needs, and offerings.

PROGRAMMING:

The Black Feminist Artist Fellowship (BFAF): The Black Feminist Artist Fellowship provides direct support to Black women, Trans, and non-binary artists in recognition of their creative work. These communities of artists are both under-resourced and under-represented in the global art market. The imprint of the artist on our values, practices, and traditions help shape the aspirational desires of our families, communities, and social change movements. We support artists in fostering the creation of new art that adds to the continuum of Black feminist thought.

The fellowship provides artists with:

  1. an opportunity for critical dialogue with peers and the public;

  2. a space for rest and experimentation;

  3. resources for artistic advancement; and

  4. a network of Black feminist artists, scholars, organizers and practitioners. 

Convenings: The Weavers Project brings together communities across sector, race, gender, and class boundaries to learn, teach, and heal. Through our study group, exhibitions, public dialogues, and community partnerships, we value and support work and ways of working that have been feminized and devalued, honoring art-making, spiritual and embodied practices, and environmental and personal sustainability as key strategies for social change.

WHERE WE ARE AND WHERE WE ARE GOING

We aim to work at a pace that holds the urgency of this current moment – the pandemic, anti-Black violence, movements for justice – and acknowledges the need to move at a pace that honors our humanity. Like nature, we are adapting – shifting our priorities to meet our individual and collective needs. This year we continue to focus on building Weavers’ long-term sustainability and priorities for 2023 and beyond. For announcements, read our updates and sign up for our mailing list.