Roll Call - by Jade Powers & Katelyn D Crawford (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

This new publication offers a comprehensive exploration of every Black American artist represented in the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama's preeminent collection of art, spanning the early nineteenth century to the present day.

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.

About the Author

Katelyn D. Crawford is The William Cary Hulsey Curator of American Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, AL.

Jade Powers is the Hugh Kaul Curator of Contemporary Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, AL.

Kelli Morgan is the Founding Executive Director of the Black Artists Archive in Detroit.

Imani Perry is Henry A. Morss, Jr. and Elisabeth W. Morss Professor in African & African American Studies and Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute.

Laura Woodard is librarian and archivist, Birmingham Museum of Art, AL.