As, Not For: Indexed

Curated by Jerome Harris
in collaboration with Emilia Duno & Hayden Right, and Joshua Gamma

An interactive archival iteration of the traveling exhibition As Not For: Dethroning Our Absolutes.

December 14th, 2018–February 29th, 2019
The Menial Collection
243 W. Read St.
Baltimore, MD

As, Not For identity design by Jerome Harris

Wall of 1970s and 1980s hip-hop fliers by Buddy Esquire and Phase 2

Phase 2, P.A.L. hip-hop flier, 1981. Couresy of Cornell Hip Hop Collection.

Phase 2 and Sisco Kid, Your Spot hip-hop flier, 1981. Couresy of Cornell Hip Hop Collection.

Buddy Esquire, Harlem World hip-hop flier, 1981. Couresy of Cornell Hip Hop Collection.

Buddy Esquire, P.A.L. hip-hop flier, 1979. Couresy of Cornell Hip Hop Collection.

W.E.B. DuBois, Occupations of Negroes and Whites in Georgia, 1900. 28x22”. African American photographs assembled for 1900 Paris Exposition, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.

RIGHT: Infographics by W.E.B. DuBois

Pen & Pixel CD covers (L–R): Master P: MP Da Last Don, 1998; Master P: Ghetto D, 1997; Snoop Dogg: Da Game Is To Be Sold, Not To Be Told, 1998; Juvenile: 400 Degreez, 1998.

Pen & Pixel with Master P, Snoop Dogg: Da Game Is To Be Sold, Not To Be Told Q-Pack CD cover design, 1998.

Cover of The Black Panther newspaper vol. II, no. 9, October 1968. Designs and illustrations by Emory Douglas, Minister of Culture for The Black Panther Party

Pen & Pixel CD covers with CD listening station. Albums available for listening: BG: Chopper City In The Ghetto, 1999; DJ Screw: 3 n’ The Mornin’ (Parts 1 & 2), 1994; Juvenile: 400 Degreez, 1998; Master P: Ghetto D, 1997; Master P: MP Da Last Don, 1998; Snoop Dogg: Da Game Is To Be Sold, Not To Be Told, 1998.

Reproductions of The Black Panther newspaper, design and illustrations by Emory Douglas, Minister of Culture for The Black Panther Party. 1967–1980.

Books on Black art and design from The Menial Collection library