Sunday, September 9, 2012

Black Studies Visual Chronicle Series


“Is there a particular power of the visual to make possible or imaginable that which is not the present reality?” —Elizabeth Alexander

This semester, we're running a series of images featuring photographs of our contributors as well as artistic compositions and flyers highlighting our program and black studies ideas in general. The images this semester are primarily designed by Psyche Southwell.

Years ago, Tristan Denyer and Marci Daniels, our first designer and artistic director, respectively, initiated our practice of utilizing graphic design to advance black studies, and for the last two years, my younger brother Kenton Rambsy produced dozens of posters, postcards, and flyers for us.

In addition to presenting some of our images here, I will post many of the compositions on our black studies facebook page.  

The entries:
Visual Chronicle #1  (Underground Reading Group)
Visual Chronicle #2  (Blueprint for Black Studies)
Visual Chronicle #3 (black Studies)
Visual Chronicle #4 (the shoes)
Visual Chronicle #5 (the shoes...take 2)
Visual Chronicle #6 (in NYC)
Visual Chronicle #7  (black studies flyer)
Visual Chronicle #8 (serious possibility)
Visual Chronicle #9 (first 100)
Visual Chronicle #10 (Richard Wright)
Visual Chronicle #11 (serious possibility)
Visual Chronicle #12 (Colson Whithead)
Visual Chronicle #13 (Rambsy reading )
Visual Chronicle #14 (anthologies as mixtapes)
Visual Chronicle #15 (black arts enterprise)
Visual Chronicle #16 (Black Studies & The Boondocks)
Visual Chronicle #17 (Octavia Butler)
Visual Chronicle #18  (Toni Morrison)
Visual Chronicle #19 (Clifton & Whitehead)
Visual Chronicle #20 (Natural Hair books)
Visual Chronicle #21 (Kevin Young)
Visual Chronicle #22 (Allison Joseph)
Visual Chronicle #23 (Alexander)
Visual Chronicle #24 (Black Panther)

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