Roll Call

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 United States. Artists featured include 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.

Edited by Jade Powers and Katelyn D. Crawford, essays by Kelli Morgan, Imani Perry and Laura Woodard, prefaces by Kerry James Marshall and Randall L. Woodfin

Author biographies

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 the Henry A. Morss, Jr. and Elisabeth W. Morss Professor in African & African American Studies and the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, MA
Laura Woodard is librarian and archivist, Birmingham Museum of Art, AL

Table of Contents

• Director’s Foreword—Graham C. Boettcher
• Mayor’s Preface—Randall L. Woodfin
• Artist’s Preface—Kerry James Marshall
• Introduction—Jade Powers and Katelyn D. Crawford
• Exhibitions to Acquisitions: Connecting the Works of Black American Artists—Laura C. Woodard
• It’s About Ideas: Reflections on the Art of Black Alabama—Imani Perry
• Thinking Back, Thinking Black: Celebrating 75 Years of Art, Collecting, and Representation at the Birmingham Museum of Art—Kelli Morgan
• Entries
• Index of Works by Black American Artists in the Birmingham Museum of Art Collection
• Selected Bibliography
• Contributor Biographies
• Index
• Photography Credits