InCooperation Racine: A Black feminist ethos in art and action
Based in Englewood, Cooperation Racine is a new co-op space with an anti-capitalist approach to creating alternative forms of economic enrichment. Spawned from casual conversations among artists organized by Andrea Yarbrough regarding access to space, Cooperation Racine aims to materialize a desire to share resources, space, and knowledge within the Englewood community. The five founding “worker/owners”—Yarbrough, Kayla Reefer, Tavia David, Andrés Lemus-Spont, and Saleem Hue Penny—envisioned an alternative art economy that prioritized sustainability and care, with Englewood at the heart of it all.