Fatima Seck is a teacher, poet, and community artist. Through public and community-centered projects, Fatima explores Black history, archival expansion, public space, land and materiality, and Black childhood.  Her work has received support from several organizations including Grow Boston, Revival Road Farm, the City of Cambridge, Wellesley College’s Anti-Carceral Co-Laboratory, the New England Foundation for the Arts, and more. She is deeply grounded in pedagogy and social engagement, and has worked as an educator and teaching artist at several local public schools and institutions including the ICA Boston, where she currently facilitates their teen Photo Collective program. Her poem, “Carrots,” was selected for the 2023 Mayor’s Poetry Program and was displayed at Boston City Hall. 

Fatima will be gathering natural pigments from botanics found at the Cemetery for an illustrated children’s poetry book about the life of one of Mount Auburn’s most significant residents, Harriet Jacobs. Her residency will include teaching workshops on poetry and on natural ink-making, and will culminate in a storytelling event at Jacobs’ gravesite for young school groups.