Rising sun : artists in an uncertain America / Dejáy B. Duckett and Judith Tannenbaum ; essays by Dejáy B. Duckett, Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Judith Tannenbaum, Jodi Throckmorton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Duckett, Dejáy B., organizer, contributor.

Tannenbaum, Judith, 1944- organizer, contributor.

Muhammad, Khalil Gibran, 1972- contributor.

Throckmorton, Jodi, contributor.

African American Museum in Philadelphia, host institution.

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mixed media (Art)--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Exhibitions.

Mixed media (Art).

Human rights in art--Exhibitions.

Human rights in art.

Democracy--In art--Exhibitions.

Democracy.

Physical Description:

149 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm

Other Title:

Artists in an uncertain America

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : African American Museum in Philadelphia ; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, [2023]

Summary:

The African American Museum in Philadelphia (AAMP) and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) joined together in a bold collaboration to create the exhibition Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America. In a time when perspectives about human rights, equality, free speech, and other democratic principles are radically disparate, the curators invited twenty artists to respond to the critical question: Is the sun rising or setting on the experiment of American democracy?" They were prompted by the words of Benjamin Franklin and James Weldon Johnson, whose poem "Lift Every Voice and Sing" became the Black National Anthem. Conceived as one exhibition on view at two museums, the commissioned works include multi-media installations, video projections, large-scale paintings and sculpture, drawings, prints, and photographs.

Contents:

Foreword / Ashley Jordan and Eric G. Pryor

Rising sun: an introduction / Jodi Throckmorton

The Descent of democracy / Khalil Gibran Muhammad

PastPresentFuture / Dejáy B. Duckett

The culture wars, updated / Judith Tannenbaum

Artist statements and interviews : Shiva Ahmadi ; John Akomfrah CBE ; La Vaughn Belle ; Tiffany Chung ; Lenka Clayton ; Petah Coyne ; Mark Thomas Gibson ; Martha Jackson Jarvis ; Demetrius Oliver ; Eamon Ore-Giron ; Alison Saar ; Dread Scott ; Rose B. Simpson ; Sheida Soleimani ; Renée Stout ; Dyani White Hawk ; Hank Willis Thomas ; Deborah Willis ; Wilmer Wilson IV ; Saya Woolfalk

Artist Biographies.

Notes:

"This catalog is published in conjunction with the exhibition Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America, on view at African American Museum in Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts March 23-December 31, 2023, PAFA; March 23, 2023-March 3, 2024, AAMP" --Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780943836140

094383614X

OCLC:

1428060333