fayemi shakur
fayemi shakur is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and social justice and arts advocate based in Newark, New Jersey. Her career has focused on collaboration, cultural organizing, and community engagement as she considers them “meaningful experiences that challenge the way we see the world, ourselves, and each other”.
Currently, she serves as Arts and Cultural Affairs Director for the City of Newark. As a writer, her published work has been featured in The New York Times, CNN Style, and MFON: Women Photographers in the African Diaspora among other books and publications.
fayemi is the founder of A Womb of Violet, a collective to honor the work of Black women writers, poets, and artists and pay homage to Black feminist/womanist thinkers. She is the editor of “A Womb of Violet: An Anthology” (2019) and “A Womb of Violet: Volume II” (2021), two limited-edition, risograph artbooks produced in conjunction with Project for Empty Space. The first anthology archived in several collections including the Thomas J Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Newark Public Library, The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The Beinecke Rare Book, and Manuscript Library at Yale University, and The Library of Congress.
You can learn more about her at fayemishakur.com