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100% of proceeds from this sale will go to ANERA, who have worked to provide humanitarian assistance and sustainable development in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem for 55 years, and even now are delivering hot meals, food parcels and hygiene kits.

40 ACRES: Weeksville was a multilayered public performance that took place in the sky above Crown Heights, Brooklyn on June 19th, 2023. A skywriter traced the borders of the historic Weeksville community—an area 492.72 acres in total—in the sky to honor the legacy of one of the first recognized free Black communities in the country, which occupied the location from 1838 to around 1930. This skywriting pays homage to the memory of Freedmen communities and acknowledges histories and social oppressions that are often unseen and paved over, by connecting current locations and national inequities to the failures of Reconstruction in the United States after the Civil War.

While ephemeral, this performance now lives in the form of photographs, and video documentation. Photographed by Johnny Fogg.