Courtney Bowles

Courtney Bowles

Co-Founder and Co-Director of People's Library

Courtney Bowles is an artist, archaeologist, community activist, and educator from Richmond, Virginia. Since 2013, she has co-directed The People’s Library, facilitating weekly workshops, presenting at conferences, and helping to start additional branches around the country. Her work and research focus on the minutia, the discarded, and material culture in an effort to understand how the past has influenced our present. In addition to her current work, she has co-produced two films, The Builder and New Jerusalem, and released 4 albums on Jagjaguwar with the band Spokane.