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Dear Mazie, : sanctuary, speculation, and sky / edited by Amber Esseiva.
Fine Arts Library NA737.M47 A4 2026
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Meredith, Amaza Lee, 1895-1984--Exhibitions.
- Meredith, Amaza Lee.
- Meredith, Amaza Lee, 1895-1984--Archives.
- African American women architects--Exhibitions.
- African American women architects.
- Genre:
- exhibition catalogs.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 340 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, plans, portraits ; 25 cm
- Distribution:
- New York, NY : ARTBOOK | D.A.P
- Other Title:
- Sanctuary, speculation, and sky
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA) ; Richmond, VA : Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University (ICA at VCU), [2026]
- Summary:
- "This is an experimental illustrated reader exploring the work and legacy of American architect, educator and artist Amaza Lee Meredith (1895–1984), a trailblazer who was the first known Black queer woman to practice as an architect in the United States. This book takes Meredith's expansive letter-writing practice as a conceptual framework for epistolary responses in the present, plotting Meredith's life and work within themes of placemaking, gender, sexuality and Black love, with a focus on how she built sanctuaries (homes, institutions and communities) for herself and other people of color to foster rigorous artistic pursuit, free of persecution. The book features previously unpublished photos, blueprints, letters and scrapbooks from Meredith's archives and an annotated timeline of her life and work. Essays from architectural scholars and oral histories with former students, colleagues and friends explore her legacy in public education, the arts, modernist architecture and the built environment in the context of school desegregation, civil rights, and land and property rights. A diverse group of contemporary artists also respond to Meredith's legacy"--ARTBOOK | D.A.P. website (viewed June 18, 2026). https://www.artbook.com/9781954939158.html
- Contents:
- Director's foreword / Jessica Bell Brown
- Sanctuary, speculation, sky / Amber Esseiva
- AD—WO, in conversation with Amber Esseiva
- Dear Mazie, exhibition
- Archival timeline
- Black box
- There is no such things as African American Architecture / Mario Gooden
- Dear M____, / Mabel O. Wilson
- Commissions
- A love supreme / Craig Wilkins
- How to Construct an Interior / Charisse Pearlina Weston
- Oral histories
- Joel Howard
- Reverand Grady Powell
- Regenia Perry
- Steve Williams
- Reprints
- Sag Harbor / Colson Whitehead
- Lines to a nasturtium / Anne Spencer
- Artists
- Kapwani Kiwanga
- Abigail Lucien
- Tschabalala Self
- Cauleen Smith
- The Black School, in conversation with Alexis Pauline Gumbs
- Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo
- It's all out of my arms : our collective mouth is speaking
- Acknowledgements.
- Notes:
- "Published by the Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA) and the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University (ICA at VCU) on the occasion of the exhibition, Dear Mazie, curated by Amber Esseiva, organized by the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond (September 6, 2024-March 9,2025), and which traveled to the Contemporary (sic) African American Museum, Los Angeles, California (September 9, 2025-March 1, 2026)"--Colophon.
- Pages 191-194 are printed on 1 folded sheet inserted.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781954939158
- 1954939159
- OCLC:
- 1557403633
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