With A Cast Of Colored Stars
I had the opportunity to work on this exhibition alongside Kelly Walters and Joelle Riffle as a design assistant. The exhibition highlights the evolution of racialized iconography in Black American popular entertainment. Inspired by visual representations in early African American cinema the show features original music sheet covers, reproductions of theater advertisements, film posters and vinyl record covers that span from 1836–1979. Artists and designers were invited to interpret and remix from this historical imagery, and have produced work across a wide range of media—posters, zines, videos, newspaper broadsides, patterns, and collage.
The title “With a cast of colored stars,” uses similar hand drawn typography in Oscar Micheaux posters, which closely examine examples of segregation which also re-contextualizing them for new alternative platforms.
The layout of the show highlights the intersection of historical print media alongside contemporary designer responses and gives space to reflect on the legacy of language, illustration, photography, and print techniques used to shape mainstream conceptions of Blackness in America.
ROLE | Exhibition design assistant
The title “With a cast of colored stars,” uses similar hand drawn typography in Oscar Micheaux posters, which closely examine examples of segregation which also re-contextualizing them for new alternative platforms.
The layout of the show highlights the intersection of historical print media alongside contemporary designer responses and gives space to reflect on the legacy of language, illustration, photography, and print techniques used to shape mainstream conceptions of Blackness in America.
ROLE | Exhibition design assistant
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