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 transformed into a curatorial project dedicated towards providing free and accessible programs that center the histories of Black Caribbean women and femme artists who have created a scholarship of work that is representative of agency and resistance. Our goal is to create a physical cultural hub with exhibitions, reading rooms, and educational programs that centers Black Caribbean women and femmes histories.
Image taken by Six Lauture.
FOUNDER
Zainab Floyd is a Haitian and African-American curator, writer, researcher, and artist based in New York. Floyd is the founder and executive director of Caribbean Archive. She has conducted research in Accra, Ghana, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, Bahia, Brazil, and Paris, France. Zainab is interested in themes of Black feminism, resistance and liberation. Zainab’s work has been exhibited and screened at Photoville, BAM, Metrograph, Paul Robeson Galleries at Rutgers University, New York University, and The Studio Museum in Harlem. Zainab’s work has been featured in Teen Vogue, Studio Magazine, Aperture, Hyperallergic, and the Huffington Post. She received her bachelor’s degree from New York University. She is working towards continuing her Master’s in Caribbean studies.