The Public Spaces of Black Women

Ladi'Sasha Jones (she, her) is a writer, designer and curator with more than thirteen years of experience in community-engaged and place-based programming across art, literary, and architecture organizations. Her research-based practice explores Black spatial histories through text, toy-making, and community-engaged programming. She has written about art and culture for Aperture, Avery Review, Arts.Black, e-flux Criticism, Gagosian Quarterly, Houston Center for Photography, and The Art Momentum. Her project, Black Interior Space / Spatial Thought was commissioned by THE SHED (NYC) as a part of Open Call 2021 and was the recipient of a 2021 Research and Development award from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. As an arts administrator, Jones held appointments at The Laundromat Project, Norton Museum of Art, New Museum’s IdeasCity platform, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in the History and Theory of Architecture at Princeton University, and holds a M.A. in Arts Politics from New York University and B.A. in African American Studies from Temple University.