A Brief People’s Art History of Southeast Queens

With a sense of urgency in response to the rapid gentrification of the neighborhoods of Southeast Queens, Damali Abrams the Glitter Priestess published A Brief People’s Art History of Southeast Queens. Challenging the notion that only “the great” makes history, Abrams’ art history represents the points of view of artists and cultural workers who live and work in Southeast Queens. Inkjet printed on Asuka paper and housed in a handmade paper enclosure with glitter and pink rose petal inclusions, A Brief People’s Art History of Southeast Queens is an alphabetical art history of the artist’s Southeast Queens neighborhood. Drawing from the authors collected oral histories and archival research to preserve the rich art histories of a multicultural community of local artists and business owners who are predominantly working and middle-class Black, Indigenous and people of color, many of whom are (im)migrants.

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Rhode Island School of Design, Claremont Colleges, Indiana University Bloomington, Virginia Commonwealth University, Ringling School of Art & Design, University of Michigan, Baylor University, University of Delaware, Vassar College, Yale University, Harvard University, University of California (Santa Barbara), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Colorado (Boulder), Rochester Institute of Technology, Library of Congress, University of Pennsylvania, Ohio State University, Bucknell University, Reed College, New York University, University of Rochester

Metadata

Title:

A Brief People’s Art History of Southeast Queens

Other Contributors:

Graphic Design by Lisa Saldivar and Damali Abrams, Handmade Paper by Chris Petrone

Date of publication:

2021

Place of publication:

Rosendale, NY

Publisher:

Women's Studio Workshop

ISBN:

978-1-943039-31-9

Dimensions:

Unrolled 8”X44”

Number in edition:

50

Paper:

Asuka Inkjet paper, Handmade paper with glitter and pink rose petal inclusions

Printing method:

Inkjet and Letterpress

Structure:

Scroll Book

Funding source:

New York State Council on the Arts, Windgate Foundation

Writer:

Damali Abrams