Upcoming dates:
Saturday, Feb 22, 2025 | 12:00 pm | Collaborative Filmmaking Workshop with Basement Films
Basement Films is collaborating with The Mobile Abolition Library and Marcella Ernest to offer a hands-on filmmaking workshop focused on community-based abolitionist futures art through predeveloped 16mm film, and sound at Working Classroom. This workshop is designed for POC, Black and Indigenous individuals from New Mexico, queer-identifying and non-gender conforming relatives, and allies, creating a space for collective creativity and expression. Participants will come together to produce visual art that reflects Queer Indigenous feminism, celebrating kinship, relationality, and inclusivity. The workshop offers an opportunity to engage in visual sovereignty, resist gender and sexual discrimination, and build community through collaborative art-making.
REGISTER HERE: https://forms.gle/3EA3HdcdE1ocZv7p8
Working Classroom
423 Atlantic Ave SW
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Thursday, Mar 29, 2025 | Community Day at the University of Arizona Museum of Art
Community Day in conduction with Hank Willis Thomas exhibition LOVERULES. The exhibition highlights several important series, including Branded and Unbranded: Reflections in Black by Corporate America. In Branded, Thomas explores and re-contextualizes the history of brand advertising and sponsorship through the iconography of sport. In Unbranded, Thomas digitally removes advertising punchlines and logos, with both series thereby highlighting the consistently dehumanizing strategies of corporate media, the commodification of African-American identity, and how dominant cultural tropes shape notions of race and race relations.
University of Arizona Museum of Art
1031 North Olive Road
Tucson, AZ 85719
ABOUT
The Mobile Abolition Library is a visual arts and literacy initiative grounded in an abolitionist framework. The mobile collection and its programming is centered in challenging the systems of surveillance, policing, punishment, and community care. The intention is to be a community-driven project that raises awareness, inspires critical thinking, and fosters discussions about incarceration’s impact on communities.
The project is a collaboration between sheri crider of the Sanitary Tortilla Factory and Bernadine Hernandez + Martìn Wannam of the Fronteristxs collective. sheri designed and built out the van including the interactive displays and exterior wrap. Additional contributing artists include Delilah Montoya (exterior photo for wrap), John-Mark Collins (coding for interactive screens) and Kaitlin Bryson (first seed library artist). Contributing organizations include Bookworks, ACLUNM and A Good Sign.
The library houses a collection of over 300 books, zines, seed library and portrait archive. The materials in the collection cover topics related to abolition, social justice, and community care. The library emphasizes grassroots and alternative methods to re-imagine the possibility of transforming criminal justice to envision and create a more equitable and sustainable future.
DONATE BOOKS TO THE LIBRARY HERE
We accept NEW and USED books!! In the spirit of generosity and abolition, we hope to have multiple copies of books to leave with readers and communities. We are so grateful to Bookworks one of Albuquerque’s last remaining local, independent bookstores is our incredible local partner hosting the book drive to community source the physical books for the library. Authors, book lovers, Abolitionists world wide are encouraged to purchase the books for the traveling library. Click here to purchase books and become a supporter of this project, we also accept used books. Find our complete book list here.
ADD TO THE JUSTICE IMPACTED ARCHIVE HERE
JUSTICE IMPACTED PORTRAIT ARCHIVE is a collection of personal stories directly impacted by mass incarceration. The portrait series is an ongoing project created by sheri crider. You can contribute to the archive HERE.
Receive a 12″x18″ portrait for participating!
ADD TO THE MIGRANT LITERACY PROJECT HERE
The Migrant Literacy Project (MLP) teaches multi-generational literacy through border, migration, and movement narratives in English and Spanish, while documenting written and oral migrant border stories for each local community library archive. The MLP is participatory and multi-generational in its design, focusing not on institutional or formal reading and writing practices but, instead, on oral community storytelling, collaborative discussions, letter writing, and crafting of participant narratives through multi-modal media forms. The outcome of planned face-to-face workshops is increased community literacy. collaborates with community libraries throughout New Mexico and hopes to expand throughout the US. In densely Spanish-speaking regions, migrant populations will collaborate with local community librarians. Participants will also receive a free 12″ x 18″ portrait.
ABOLITION SEED LIBRARY
Seedling Radicle Futures Zine
Seeding Radicle Futures directed by A&E faculty Jeanette Hart-Mann and Kaitlin Bryson is partnering with the Mobile Abolition Library, the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE) and their Southwest Seed Partnership (SSP) program to create a Mobile Abolition Seed Library. The seed library will complement the traveling literary collection and support the project’s ongoing grassroots actions to encourage advocacy for abolition through food sovereignty, seed justice and accessibility, and habitat restoration through the circulation and growth of native seeds. The seed collection will prioritize’s native seeds and their situated/place-based knowledges to foster community-driven resilience.
The Seed Library focuses on promoting sustainable practices and community resilience. The seed library focuses on seeds centered on food and climate resilience for each region that the library visits. We believe that land based practices are central to transforming criminal justice. Our first edition of the Mobile Abolition seeds available were designed and thoughtfully selected by Kaitlin Bryson.
TRAVEL PLAN The library is set to visit various locations in New Mexico and the US over the next three years. This includes community and library spaces, communities directly surrounding migrant detention centers and prisons. Additionally the mobile library will visit book stores, art museums and spaces that create space for critical dialogue.
ADDITIONAL EXHIBITIONS include travel to key museum and art exhibitions throughout the state and leverages the intersection between art and activism.
FOR MORE INFO:
PHONE (505) 228-3749 OR EMAIL abolitionlibrary@gmail.com
Thank you to our partners and supporters!
