ABOUT: CARIBBEAN ARCHIVE
Founded in 2019 by Zainab Floyd, Caribbean Archive began as a digital database of Black Caribbean women artists, dancers, anthropologists, poets, and educators; all of whom have created a scholarship of agency and resistance. Caribbean Archive has since then organized an exhibition, led a teach-in, and sat in for panel discussions. Our goal is to create a physical cultural hub with exhibitions, reading rooms, and educational programs that centers Black Caribbean women and femmes histories.
Self portrait taken by Zainab Floyd
FOUNDER
Zainab Floyd is a Haitian and African-American curator, researcher, archivist, and artist based in New York. Floyd is the founder and artistic director of Caribbean Archive. She is the co-founder, with Angelica Calderon, of ZAZA Uptown, an artist collective dedicated to the progress of Afro-Caribbean femmes, women, and gender nonconforming artists. She has conducted research in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire and Bahia, Brazil. For her research project in Abidjan she explored African diasporic art productions, curatorial practices and creative entrepreneurship particularly led by Black women and femmes. She hope’s to learn more about the different cultural and artistic productions in Abidjan that continue the legacy of creating safe spaces for Black women and femmes actualizing their identities, sexuality, agency and autonomy. Floyd received her bachelor’s degree from New York University. She is working towards continuing her education in Caribbean studies.