• Vashti DuBois
• Founder/Executive Director of The Colored Girls Museum

Vashti Dubois founder and Executive Director of The Colored Girls Museum in Philadelphia PA. is a social practice artist, creative scholar, and institution-builder. After a thirty year career in the non profit sector DuBois founded the Colored Girls Museum (TCGM) a grassroots “place-based” living museum that honors and memorializes the experiences of women and girls of the African Diaspora. The first of its kind, the museum initiates the object—submitted by the Colored Girl herself—as representative of an aspect of her story and personal history which she finds meaningful. TCGM distinguishes itself by exclusively collecting, preserving, honoring and decoding artifacts pertaining to the experience and herstory of ordinary girls of The African Diaspora. This museum is equal parts research facility, exhibition space, gathering place and think tank. TCGM has been engineered to travel popping up in cities and neighborhoods around the world , transforming ordinary spaces into Colored Girls Museum outposts.TCGM is the first museum of her kind. In addition to her upcoming induction as a 2022 honoree at the Germantown Hall of Fame, DuBois is a 2022 Fellow at Clark Art Institute in Massachusetts, where she will be working on her forthcoming book, Housework: A Memoir.