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Stitching Love and Loss

A Gee's Bend Quilt

Winner of the 2023 Horowitz Prize by the Bard Graduate Center

Shortlisted for the 2024 Charles C. Eldredge Prize by the Smithsonian American Art Museum

A meditation on suffering, resilience, creativity, and grace

In 1942 Missouri Pettway, newly...

Nordic Utopia?

African Americans in the Twentieth Century

By Leslie Anne Anderson, Ethelene Whitmire, Temi Odumosu, Ryan Thomas Skinner

Features the experiences of African American artists in Nordic Europe

During the twentieth century, Black Americans visited and lived in Nordic countries, performing, studying, working, and seeking adventure, love, freedom to explore sexuality, and distance from...

Determined to Be

The Sculpture of John Rhoden

By Brittany Webb, Sylvea Hollis, Katelyn D. Crawford, Greg Barnhisel, Rebecca Vandiver, Kelin Baldridge Smallwood, Hannah McCoy

This richly illustrated book celebrates the groundbreaking work of an African American sculptor

Determined to Be explores the work of prizewinning American sculptor John Walter Rhoden (1916–2001). When Rhoden was young, his talent caught the attention...

Barbara Earl Thomas

The Illuminated Body

By Carolyn Swan Needell

Features work across a wide range of artistic mediums including paper, glass, and Tyvek

A talented visual storyteller, Barbara Earl Thomas has drawn from history, literature, folklore, mythology, and biblical stories over her forty-year career to...

Barbara Earl Thomas

The Geography of Innocence

By Catharina Manchanda, Halima Taha, and Barbara Earl Thomas

A revered Seattle-based artist calls for hope, faith, and truth

Barbara Earl Thomas’s new body of work carries within it the sediments of history and grapples with race and the color line. At the heart of...

Jacob Lawrence

The American Struggle

By Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Austen Barron Bailly

This publication sets the precedent for the next generation of Lawrence scholars and studies in modern and contemporary discourse. The American Struggle explores Jacob Lawrence’s radical way of transforming history into art by looking at...

Wanted: Ed Bereal

For Disturbing the Peace

By Amy Chaloupka

Born in Riverside, California in 1937 and profoundly affected by World War II, Ed Bereal made significant contributions to assemblage and performance arts in Los Angeles during the early 1960s through 1980s. A consummate draftsman...

The Unicorn Incorporated

Curtis R. Barnes

By Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker

The Unicorn Incorporated celebrates the work and career of Seattle artist Curtis R. Barnes. For over five decades, Barnes has worked as an artist, illustrator, muralist, and community advocate. In his sculpture, painting, and drawing,...

William H. Johnson

An American Modern

By Teresa G. Gionis

"My aim is to express in a natural way what I feel, what is in me, both rhythmically and spiritually, all that which in time has been saved up in my family of primitiveness and...

Never Late for Heaven

By Sheryl Conkelton and Barbara Earl Thomas. Foreword by Janeanne A. Upp

Never Late for Heaven chronicles an odyssey in American art and social events beginning with the often-romanticized Harlem Renaissance and traveling through the Great Depression and beyond. Gwen Knight’s story reveals the life and the...

The Complete Jacob Lawrence

Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence AND Jacob Lawrence: Paintings, Drawings, and Murals (1935-1999), A Catalogue Raisonne

By Peter T. Nesbett, Michelle DuBois

This two-volume set, including Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence and Jacob Lawrence: Paintings, Drawings, and Murals (1935-1999), A Catalogue Raisonne, is the definitive publication on the work of artist Jacob...