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Published to accompany the first major museum exhibition of Lawrence's Struggle series, opening at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA, in January 2020. The exhibition then travels nearly two continuous years around the United States. The museums hosting this landmark exhibition are: The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Birmingham Museum of Art (AL), the Seattle Art Museum, and the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. The museums and SFP will be posting on YouTube a series of videos of the 35 teens whose works featured in the book. They will be reading their entries and talking about how this project pertains to their lives. Coordinated publicity and marketing campaign with Peabody Essex Museum. Readings, workshops, and other events scheduled with the four other venues.

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A fresh lens for viewing Jacob Lawrence's art: through the perspective of teens of color. Created in cooperation with seven art institutions, including the Peabody Essex Museum and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, this anthology features teen-authored prose and poetry responses to Lawrence's 30-panel visual narrative, Struggle: From the History of the American People. Some pieces articulate what teens see in the art; in others, the art inspires reflections about their lives. All address the difficulties of growing up minoritized in the U.S....The volume includes all of the Struggle paintings, their original captions, and a brief commentary on each. An invaluable resource amplifying marginalized teen voices and conveying Lawrence's relevance to their own lives. * <b>Kirkus Reviews</b> *

A fresh lens for viewing Jacob Lawrence's art: through the perspective of teens of color. Created in cooperation with seven art institutions, including the Peabody Essex Museum and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, this anthology features teen-authored prose and poetry responses to Lawrence's 30-panel visual narrative, Struggle: From the History of the American People. Some pieces articulate what teens see in the art; in others, the art inspires reflections about their lives. All address the difficulties of growing up minoritized in the U.S. Sixteen-year-old Lucia Santos discusses apathy's pervasiveness: We move forward, convincing ourselves that we are progressing, when in reality we are leaving power in the same places. High school sophomore Yoilett Ramos Sanchez writes that marginalized people give white people what they want when they fight and kill each other, asking, If white people turned on each other...would everyone be equal? Arguably the strongest writer in the volume, 2017 New York City Youth Poet Laureate Ambassador L'hussen De Kolia Toure pairs his analysis of the difficulties of attempting to embrace his queer and black identities with Lawrence's image of a lone cannon. The volume includes all of the Struggle paintings, their original captions, and a brief commentary on each. An invaluable resource amplifying marginalized teen voices and conveying Lawrence's relevance to their own lives. (contributor bios) (Nonfiction. 12-18)

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Jacob Lawrence (1917 - 2000) was an American painter, and the most widely acclaimed African-American artist of the 20th century. Chul R. Kim is Publisher of Six Foot Press and former Associate Publisher of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. He is a longtime editor of scholarly writings, fiction, and nonfiction.

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