a Welcome Table is an artists care gathering series for Black and Global Majority artists to authentically connect outside of work created by conceptual artist, Monica L. Williams.

In this time of Global shift, creatives need a space to nourish and replenish themselves, to connect to other artists, to be encouraged and enriched for the next moments they are called on to make art.

a Welcome Table is inspired by the many artists, like James Baldwin, who gather artists, scholars, journalists of color together in safe spaces around the world. Baldwin gathered people at his welcome table in his home in the Saint Paul de Vence, France, where he found community and healing during a time of great political unrest in the U.S. Some of the great thinkers and creatives of our times like Toni Morrison, Henry Lois Gates and Josephine Baker, gathered around his welcome table. They arrived hungry and left full, literally and figuratively, receiving the fruit of being in community with others.

a Welcome Table occurs in four events during the Spring and Fall. Participants can join the cycle wherever they begin.

PLAY! + FREE + (rest) + Fortify

@ a Welcome Table we believe in the value of artists; in our agency, in our preservation and that our way of being human is worthy of care. a Welcome Table is iterative and mobile; we gather in New York City and in a community near you. See below for more information.

Research from Smithsonian NMAAHC website and Special thanks to the Schomburg Center for Black Research Baldwin Archives, courtesy of the Baldwin Family.