ACA Foods Free Library and Caribbean Corner Library, 2010-11 and 2015-16

Rockstone and Bootheel, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT.

I installed a functioning library inside ACA Foods market, a West Indian grocery store in Hartford, which has the fourth largest Caribbean population in North America. This exclusively Caribbean library was open to all patrons of the market. The books were organized by category (i.e. region, history, children) and arranged on shelves alongside the customary products and provisions sold in the store. For example, the political titles were found among the hot pepper sauces; children's books were next to biscuits and cookies; Jamaican authors alongside jerk sauces.

Caribbean Corner Library, Caribbean Corner, Toronto, Canada 2015-2016

I installed a functioning library inside Caribbean Corner, a Toronto grocer. This exclusively Caribbean library was accessible to all patrons. The books were organized by category and arranged on shelves alongside the customary products and provisions sold in the store.