Leonard Library
81 Devoe St. at Leonard St., Brooklyn, NY 11211
Social media platforms are the first choice for sharing our lives and connecting with friends, family, and our nuclear communities. Those small communities, however, aren’t the only ones seeing our posts; corporations, governments and the larger internet community sees them too. the public is private features a scrolling marquee that displays the text of a curated selection of posts intended for smaller nuclear communities. The marquee shares posts that are geolocated at Leonard Library or that use the hashtag #atreegrowinsinbrooklyn.
About Toisha Tucker
Toisha Tucker is an interdisciplinary conceptual artist and writer. Through text-based prints, photographs, and installations, they debunk accepted social constructions around race, gender, and identity. Using epistemological, literary and linguistic investigation, they also delve into the relationship between technology and human empathy. See more of their work at toishatucker.com.
About Leonard Library
Brooklyn Public Library’s Leonard Library is one of BPL’s original Carnegie branches and is the iconic library visited by Francie in Betty Smith’s beloved book, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. In 2008, Brooklyn Public Library staff joined Smith’s family and the NYC Parks Department to plant a tree in the author’s memory outside of the branch. Located one block from busy Metropolitan Avenue and situated on a residential block in Williamsburg, Leonard Library fills an important niche in this lively community, offering popular children’s programming such as Story Play on Tuesdays and Jump, Dance and Wiggle on Fridays.