Emancipation: The Unfinished Project of Liberation
Emancipation: The Unfinished Project of Liberation sits at the intersection of history and contemporary life. Building upon in-depth conversations about representations of enslavement and emancipation at the close of the Civil War, this project originates from an analysis of sculptor John Quincy Adams Ward’s The Freedman (1863), one of the first bronze representations of a Black person in the United States, and expands into an investigation of how living artists envision emancipation, freedom, and liberation today.
Featuring interviews with artists Sadie Barnette, Alfred Conteh, Maya Freelon, Hugh Hayden, Letitia Huckaby, Jeffrey Meris, and Sable Elyse Smith, the exhibition catalog explores their practices along with cutting-edge scholarship by Kirsten Pai Buick and Kelvin Parnell, among others, as well as a haunting story of embodiment and exploitation by celebrated science-fiction author N. K. Jemisin. Burdened by failed promises but buoyed by hope, this project is mournful and melancholy yet also reflective and celebratory in its aspirations for a brighter future.
Hardcover
144 Pages
Kinship
Portraiture—whether painting, photography, sculpture or performance—can offer invaluable insight into the nature of our familial relationships and other interpersonal bonds. Kinship features the work of Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Ruth Leonela Buentello, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Jess T. Dugan, Jessica Todd Harper, Thomas Holton, Sedrick Huckaby, and Anna Tsouhlarakis, who explore the complex nature of this theme in myriad ways. Through essays by National Portrait Gallery curators, statements by the artists, and interviews, this beautifully illustrated book illuminates the mutable yet enduring qualities of kinship. The book is published on the occasion of the National Portrait Gallery exhibition Kinship (October 28, 2022–January 7, 2024).
Bitter Waters Sweet
Letitia Huckaby: Bitter Waters Sweet
78 Pages
Hardbound
In her exhibition as the ALH, 2022 Texas Artist of the Year, Letitia Huckaby explores the legacy of Africatown, the historic community near Mobile, Alabama, that was founded by a group of West African people who were trafficked to the U.S. as slaves shortly before Emancipation, and long after the Atlantic slave trade was banned. The ship that brought them, the Clotilda, was scuttled in Mobile Bay shortly after delivering its cargo in 1860 to conceal its illegal activity. The wreckage was rediscovered in 2018 and is currently the subject of active archaeological research.
FLAT Files – issue 1
FLAT Files is a new photography publication dedicated to showcasing the work of Southern photographers, specifically folks from or based in Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, & New Mexico.
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, A Black Family Keepsake
Tiya Miles, 2021
Athenaeum Review
Benjamin Lima, University of Texas at Dallas, Issue 5, Winter 2021
Otherwise/Revival
Exhibition Catalogue, Bridge Projects, 2021
Collecting Black Studies
The Art of Material Culture at The University of Texas at Austin, Lise Ragbir and Cherise Smith, 2020
Flint Hills Field Journal
Volume XII, Stone, 2020
Common Wealth Art by African Americans in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
LOWERY STOKES SIMS
The Otwin 2016: American PORTRAITURE TODAY
NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, 2016
Portraits of Courage: A Commander in Chief’s Tribute to America’s Warriors
George W. Bush, 2017
2013 Texas Biennial Exhibition Catalog
Texas Biennial
Espoused
Letitia & Sedrick Huckaby
Art Museum of Southeast Texas
Sedrick Huckaby: From Earth To Heaven
Sedrick Huckaby
Art Museum of Southeast Texas, 2010