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Free Pages Project
Project type
Public Sculptures - Resistance - Activism
Date
2024-2025
Role
Jacobs is the Founder and Lead Artist of the Free Pages Project (FPP), a public art initiative that promotes access to banned and challenged books through the creation of sculptural libraries. Jacobs conceptualizes and designs each library sculpture, oversees the fabrication process, coordinates book donations, and manages community partnerships to install the sculptures in public spaces. This project combines activism, education, and sculpture to challenge censorship and celebrate intellectual freedom.
Location
The Free Pages Project (FPP) began in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where the first sculptural libraries were developed and installed as part of my MFA thesis exhibition at Louisiana State University. Rooted in the city’s academic, political, and cultural landscape, the project responds to the region’s history of censorship and educational inequality, while aiming to make banned and challenged books accessible through public art.
Date
Established in January 2024
Project type
The Free Pages Project (FPP) is a socially engaged public art initiative that combines sculpture, activism, and community literacy. It consists of sculptural libraries installed in public spaces, each housing a curated collection of banned and challenged books. The project challenges censorship and promotes intellectual freedom by transforming art into a vehicle for access, resistance, and public dialogue.
The Free Pages Project transforms sculptural art into functional resistance against book censorship by creating visually striking, publicly accessible libraries that contain banned and challenged books. These sculptural installations—designed as lighthouses, speech bubbles, and other bold forms—are strategically placed in public spaces, such as sidewalks, parks, and community areas, where First Amendment protections are strongest. With over 16,000 book bans documented in U.S. public schools since 2021, targeting primarily books about race, LGBTQ+ identity, and historical injustice, the project addresses a coordinated national effort to restrict access to diverse narratives that disproportionately harm students who rely on schools and libraries for intellectual resources, particularly those from marginalized communities. The project recognizes that book bans aren't abstract ideological conflicts but material threats that deepen social inequities by denying young people representation, critical information, and equal educational opportunities. By making censored literature physically accessible through art, the Free Pages Project transforms everyday reading into an act of resistance, ensuring that suppressed voices remain visible and available to communities that need them most while making censorship impossible to ignore and asserting that knowledge belongs in public spaces, not locked away by those in power.



























