To support Collective Recollections: Reflections on Black Creativity and Contemporary Art History Making, a three-day program focused on creating spaces for site-specific conversations exploring Black cultural praxis through the lens of archival practice and contemporary cultural history making. The five-part program consists of an artist talk, Archiving for Artists training session, portrait sessions, recorded community roundtable discussions, and an intimate “brain trust” gathering of Chicago-based artists, archivists, and cultural workers. Conversations will be recorded, transcribed, and added to Black Lunch Table’s open-access archive, and excerpts from the conversations and commissioned contributions from event guests will be included in a physical art book to be published in fall 2025.