Writing Blackness: Harlem | Paris is an exploration of the Harlem Renaissance through the Schomburg Center collection. The exhibit was inspired by the function of the literary salons as a convening physical space where dialogue and exchange of ideas was fostered among intellectuals and cultural producers. Writing Blackness aims to incite intellectual engagement by making archival materials accessible and ‘activating’ the Schomburg Collection in a living space — literally, a 2 bedroom apartment in an affordable housing, educational and cultural arts mixed-use development.
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Exhibition hours: Thursday–Friday 3–7pm & Saturday–Sunday 1–6pm
Location: 155th Street & St. Nicholas Avenue, New York 10032
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This exhibition is presented as part of No Longer Empty's site specific art exhibit, If You Build It.
No Longer Empty has been working closely with community partners, artists, and schools to stage a site-specific exhibition in the future Sugar Hill Apartments, a new Broadway Housing at their newest site, designed by architect David Adjaye. Reflecting an integrated approach to housing and architecture, the project forges connections between art, architecture, community, and activism.
“If You Build It” will feature installations, photography, and performances by more than twenty local, national, and international artists. The works in the exhibition will address cycles of urban decay and regeneration; building community through shared heritage; immigration and displacement; the longing for home in all its senses; and the vast economic disparities that plague our cities.
The multi-floor exhibition leads visitors from the ground floor to the ninth and back finally to the third floors where additional works, installations, and apartments are curated by invited neighborhood organizations.
COLLABORATORS
Art in FLUX / ArtsConnection / The Classical Theatre of Harlem / Dominican York Proyecto GRAFICA /Harlem Arts Alliance / Harlem Needle Arts / Institute for Public Architecture / LeRoy Neiman Art Center/ Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance / Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture / Sugar Hill Culture Club / The New School Collaboratory
Exhibition hours: Thursday–Friday 3–7pm & Saturday–Sunday 1–6pm
Location: 155th Street & St. Nicholas Avenue, New York 10032
