Full Description
The volume features over 250 artworks across various media, paintings, prints, photographs, sculpture, quilts, and mixed-media works, by artists living and working both in Alabama, and across the wider United States, including David Driskell, Jacob Lawrence, Romare Bearden, Robert S. Duncanson, Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Mary Frances Whitfield, Trena Banks, Purvis Young, Glenn Ligon, Edmonia Lewis, Lorna Simpson, Chakaia Booker, Sam Gilliam, Kerry James Marshall, Joshua Johnson, Nick Cave, Elizabeth Catlett, Amalia Amaki, and Carrie Mae Weems.
Contents
Director's Foreword by Graham Boettcher
Mayoral Preface by Mayor Randall Woodfin
Celebrity Preface by Kerry James Marshall
Introduction by Katelyn D. Crawford and Jade Powers
Oral History Project and Black Art Exhibitions by Laura Woodard
Black Alabama Artists and Creativity in Birmingham by Imani Perry
Commemoration, Contemplation, and Community Outreach by Kelli Morgan
The Way Forward by Jade Powers
Main plates section
Timeline
Appendix of works by Black American and African American artists in the collection
Index
Photo Credits
