Length of commemorative printed textile by Shine Shine featuring graphic portraits of Barack Obama surrounded by rose vines. The fabric has a teal ground with a background print of a leafy rose vine with yellow leaves, coral blooming and bud roses, and light brown vines. The design is oriented so that there is a middle section and two side sections, with the side sections mirroring each other. At each selvedge there is a yellow border with coral swags and yellow fringe having a scalloped edge. Printed above the border as if driving on it is a black town car with coral highlights in profile. The car has a white five-pointed star on the hood in front of the driver side wheel and white text printed on the driver side front and back doors reading "Shine Shine". Above each of the cars is a coral hand balled in a fist with the knuckles facing and the letters "HOPE" in light brown, one letter on each finger. Above the fist is a yellow oval with a black leafy wreath border. Inside the oval is a drawn portrait of Barack Obama wearing a coral shirt and black suit jacket and necktie. He looks upward to the right. His eyes are highlighted in coral and his teeth are yellow with a white five-pointed star at one corner of his parted lips as if they are shining in the light. A yellow banner with black text below the oval reads "HOORAY / FOR THE / PRESIDENT". This same oval drawn portrait is oriented sideways and printed down the middle section without the banner of text. A yellow cardinal sits on the rose vines between each of the sideways oval portraits in this middle section. On the outer sections between the repeating oval portraits above the "HOPE" fists and town cards is a black outlined circle with a yellow interior background and another drawn portrait of Obama. In this portrait he wears a white shirt with black suit jacket and necktie and looks straight at the viewer with his mouth closed but slightly smiling. Coral text printed inside the black border reads "PEOPLE OF THE WORLD THIS IS OUR MOMENT THIS IS OUR TIME". The designer's name "Shine Shine" is printed in black on the top selvedge.
Length of commemorative printed textile by Shine Shine featuring graphic portraits of Michelle Obama surrounded by floral vines. The fabric has a mint green ground with a background print of a leafy floral vines with orange leaves, maroon flowers, and light brown vines. The design is oriented so that there is a middle section and two side sections, with the side sections mirroring each other. In the middle section the floral vine consists of blooming and bud roses. In the side sections the floral vine consists of orange fluffy petal flowers with bulbous burgundy centers. At each selvedge there is a scalloped border with a burgundy ground with small black polka dots edged in orange. Large orange fringe hangs from the upper edge of the border in front of the burgundy ground and orange edging. Printed above the border as if driving on it is an orange stretch limousine with black highlights in profile. Black text printed on the side doors reads "Shine Shine" with a black five-pointed star between the words. Above each of the cars is a drawn portrait of Michelle Obama above the chest smiling and waving with her left hand. She wears an orange shirt with burgundy collar and buttons, and a pearl necklace, earrings, and bracelet. Above the portrait is a pair of orange sunglasses with black lenses that are closed. Next to the car and portrait of Obama waving is a full-body drawn portrait of Obama seated with her feet tucked under her and her right arm draped over the back of a white leopard with black spots that is standing. Obama is smiling and speaking into the headpiece of a white telephone she holds in her left hand. She wears an orange sleeveless short nightgown, burgundy shoes, and pearl earrings. The leopard has its mouth open showing fangs with its head turned toward Obama's. An orange banner with black text is printed below the portrait that reads "DON'T STAND IN MY LIGHT". Above the portrait are printed a pair of burgundy gloves with black topstitching detail. The center section of the fabric contains the full-body portrait of Obama with the leopard oriented sideways. The portrait alternates with an orange outlined circle with a burgundy ground containing the same pair of closed orange sunglasses with black lenses. Text printed in black inside the orange border reads "NEVER GO TO BED WITHOUT WASHING YOUR DISHES". The designer's name "Shine Shine" is printed in black on one selvedge.
Length of commemorative printed textile by Shine Shine featuring graphic portraits of Barack Obama surrounded by rose vines. The fabric has an orange ground with a background print of a leafy rose vine with pale green leaves, red blooming and bud roses, and light brown vines. The design is oriented so that there is a middle section and two side sections, with the side sections mirroring each other. At each selvedge there is a pale green border with red swags and pale green fringe having a scalloped edge. Printed above the border as if driving on it is a black town car with red highlights in profile. The car has a white five-pointed star on the hood in front of the driver side wheel and white text printed on the driver side front and back doors reading "Shine Shine". Above each of the cars is a red hand balled in a fist with the knuckles facing and the letters "HOPE" in light brown, one letter on each finger. Above the fist is a pale green oval with a black leafy wreath border. Inside the oval is a drawn portrait of Barack Obama wearing a red shirt and black suit jacket and necktie. He looks upward to the right. His eyes are highlighted in red and his teeth are pale green with a white five-pointed star at one corner of his parted lips as if they are shining in the light. A pale green banner with black text below the oval reads "HOORAY / FOR THE / PRESIDENT". This same oval drawn portrait is oriented sideways and printed down the middle section without the banner of text. A pale green cardinal sits on the rose vines between each of the sideways oval portraits in this middle section. On the outer sections between the repeating oval portraits above the "HOPE" fists and town cards is a black outlined circle with a pale green interior background and another drawn portrait of Obama. In this portrait he wears a white shirt with black suit jacket and necktie and looks straight at the viewer with his mouth closed but slightly smiling. Red text printed inside the black border reads "PEOPLE OF THE WORLD THIS IS OUR MOMENT THIS IS OUR TIME". The designer's name "Shine Shine" is printed in black on the top selvedge.
Exhibition catalog for Steven Burks' first solo New York museum show, Stephen Burks | Man Made, at the Studio Museum in Harlem.
The catalog has a clear plastic cover over the front and back. There is a brown vinyl book cloth over the spine. The front plastic cover has white printed text which reads [Stephen Burks] at the top with larger text for [Man / Made] in the center. [STUDIO / MUSEUM / HARLEM] is printed diagonally in the lower right corner. There is a paper cover visible beneath the plastic with a variety of images and text. There are images of Stephen Burks and Willard Musarurwa and wire furniture pieces from the TaTu design collaboration. The top center has an image of a bearded, unidentified man. Black text on the left reads [N / E / A]. The bottom has neon pink printed text identifying the TaTu Furniture and Accessories Collection. The catalog is signed in the lower right by Stephen Burks.
The back cover has a paper back under the clear plastic cover. Some of the text on the front cover is on the back, as though the plastic was resting on top of another copy of the catalog and the text partially transferred. The paper cover has printed text in neon pink. [ESSAY] is printed in the center using a series of dots. There is a graphic of an artistic furniture piece titled “Material Composition 3 (Crown)” in the lower right. In the lower left corner is [Transformations / through Design: / Engaging / the Hand-Made / Keith Recker].
The catalog includes a biography of Stephen Burks. The book has five (5) sections: Collage, Sketch, Text, Image, Essay, each with different paper stock and a variety of colors. The section heading is printed in the center of each page using a series of dots. Each section has sixteen (16) pages. The text and essays in the book were written by Naomi Beckwith, Studio Museum associate curator; Thelma Golden, Studio Museum director and chief curator; Lowery Stokes Sims, Museum of Arts and Design curator; and Keith Recker, founder and editor of HAND/EYE Magazine.
This cowrie shell basket was created by artisans in Mossuril, Mozambique, in 2015 to hold soil from the region, which was then deposited at the site of the São José shipwreck. After a solemn ceremony on May 30, 2015, the village and tribal elder in Mossuril, Evano Nhogache, entrusted this basket to Lonnie Bunch, instructing him to place the enclosed soil as close to the wreck site as possible to symbolically reconnect those Mozambicans who were lost with their homeland. He then asked that the basket become part of the collections of the NMAAHC. On June 2, 2015, at a second memorial in Clifton, the soil was poured into the ocean near the wreck site. The slave ship São José Paquete Africa sank on December 3, 1794 off the coast of South Africa. It had left Mozambique 24 days prior bound for Maranhão, Brazil.
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A basket created by artisans in Mossuril, Mozambique for ceremonial transport of soil from Mozambique to the site of the São José shipwreck in Cape Town, South Africa. The round basket is in two parts, a base and lid, and is made from worked plant material. Cowrie shells placed closely together adorn and cover the outside of both the top and bottom of basket.