A groundbreaking study of the public art collective Smokehouse Associates, whose abstract works transformed New York's Harlem community in the late 1960s Between 1968 and 1970, the artist collective Smokehouse Associates transformed Harlem with vibrant, community-oriented abstract murals and sculptures. Established by William T. Williams and including Melvin Edwards, Guy Ciarcia, and Billy Rose, Smokehouse grew to encompass a range of creative practitioners united around the revolutionary potential of public art. Though relatively unknown today, Smokehouse was ambitious in its scale, community engagement, and interaction with the built environment. Published over fifty years after the collective's founding, Smokehouse Associates offers the first critical examination of the group's work. Eric Booker provides a historical overview of the collective; Charles Davis II and James Trainor delve into contextual histories of public art, urban design, and architecture; and an artist roundtable moderated by Ashley James presents critical reflections. With previously unpublished images and ephemera and a rich chronology, Smokehouse Associates serves as a sourcebook that expands the narrative of public art and social practice in the United States to include the contributions of artists of African descent. <div> Distributed for The Studio Museum in Harlem</div>

Smokehouse Associates

Arts & Photography

Booker, Eric

History & Criticism

Studio Museum in Harlem

Extensive survey of American painter Norman Lewis, coinciding with exhibition that took place at the Studio Museum in Harlem.

Norman Lewis: Black Paintings, 1946-1977

Craven, David

Sims, Lowery S.

Gibson, Ann Eden

Veneciano, Jorge D.

A catalogue on the occasion of "The Collages of Benny Andrews," an exhibition by the Studio Museum in Harlem, of September 18, 1988 - February 26, 1989.

The Collages of Benny Andrews

The poet Langston Hughes asks the question, 'What is Africa to me?' It is a question that might be considered as a starting point of The Studio Museum in Harlem's approach to its exhibition, 'Contemporary African Artists: Changing Traditions." For much of Africa and its rich and complex history and culture has remained virtually unknown to many Americans and other westerners. It is also a very large question and even when posed somewhat less ambitiously - 'What is contemporary African art?' - answers remain elusive. This exhibition becomes a point of entry in exploring this question. The exhibit concentrates only on artists currently working in Africa, selecting art only from the past ten years, and is not considered a comprehensive survey of the entire continent. The focus is chiefly on the sub-Saharan Africa, and those countries with a history and current activity in the visual arts. After three years of research in African and in the U.S., Studio Museum Curator Grace Stanislaus identified nine artists from six countries whose work, in her words 'represent some of the more compelling examples of the art of modern expression, technique, and medium produced in their countries.' She also found in these artists a commitment to their profession under conditions that many western artists are not asked to face. Most of the artists are relatively well known in their countries, but virtually unknown outside of them, and have created works that challenge our notions of contemporary and African art.

Contemporary African Artists: Changing Tradition

Wifredo Lam and His Contemporaries 1938-1952

Individual Artists

A catalogue of an exhibition of installation and performance art by the Studio Museum in Harlem, from May 5th to August 22, 1993.

Artists Respond: New World Question

Valerie J. Mercer

Hale Woodruff: 50 Years of His Art

A catalogue published in regards to the exhibition "Explorations in the City of Light: African-American Artists in Paris, 1945-1965," of January 18 - June 2, 1996, by the Studio Museum in Harlem.

Explorations in the City of Light: African-American Artists in Paris, 1945-1965

Bernard, Catherine, and Selz, Peter, and Fabre, Michel, and Mercer, Valerie J. (

The listening sky: An inaugural exhibition of the Studio Museum in Harlem Sculpture Garden

Published on the occasion of an exhibition at The Studio Museum in Harlem.

Glenn Ligon stranger

Ligon, Glenn

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