Sentences with phrase «jet magazine archives»

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Johnson Publishing Archive + Collections: books and periodicals donated by the Johnson Publishing Company, publisher of Ebony and Jet magazine

A series of collages made with images sourced from newspaper archives and Ebony and Jet magazines consider female representation, imagining women in absurd juxtapositions with deer heads, flames, and architectural elements.

The foundation's most ambitious project to date involved the restoration of a former bank to create the Stony Island Arts Bank, a hybrid gallery, library and community center that's home to an archive of Jet and Ebony magazines and the record collection of Frankie Knuckles, the pioneering Chicago house music DJ.

Representing an interrogation of the archive, the exhibition will include poems written by Gates and printed along the spines of bound volumes of Jet magazines, forming a catalog of Black thought.

The Stony Island Arts Bank on South Stony Island Avenue in Chicago is Gates» hybrid gallery, library and community center that's home to an archive of Jet and Ebony magazines and the record collection of Frankie Knuckles, the pioneering Chicago house music DJ.

Transformations include the Dorchester Projects, a pair of vacant two - story houses renovated for reuse as a library featuring an inventory of 8,000 LPs from Dr. Wax Records, a record store that closed in nearby Hyde Park; 14,000 volumes from the now - shuttered Prairie Avenue Art and Architecture Bookstore; a collection of glass lantern slides (60,000 images) from the University of Chicago's Art History Department; and temporarily, an archive of Ebony and Jet magazines; as well as a and soul food kitchen.

In the late 2000s, Simpson began to work with found photographs of largely African - American women sourced from auction sites of discarded Associated Press images, vintage Jet and Ebony magazines, and archives of anonymous portraits.