We Outchea: Hip-Hop Fabrications and Public Space, Collage Study 4: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A print by Sekou Cooke as part of the collage studies from “We Outchea: Hip-Hop Fabrications and Public Space.” The print is a black-and-white outline of a portion of the public housing complex Pioneer Houses in Syracuse, New York. The top view captures the vertical layout of the complex with the street end at the bottom. On top of the public housing outline are other structures filled with grid patterns, three in the top half and five in the bottom. Slightly below the center is an interior layout. There are four orange staircase plans at the corners of the interior layout. Screen printed across the print is an outline of building plans in a dark color ink. The screen printed image captures the end text of two intersecting streets [STREET] and [ND]. The artist signed the print in the front, lower right corner in graphite: [S Cooke 2020 / AP].

When installed, the collage studies comprise a 3x3 grid of nine different illustrations, with this illustration placed in the second row, on the left.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 2020
• Created by: Sekou Cooke, Jamaican American
• Subject of: Pioneer Homes, American, founded 1941
• Type: screen prints
• Type: prints
• Medium: print: ink on paper
• Medium: frame: wood (maple and American tulipwood), glass, metal
• Dimensions: H x W x D (framed): 12 7/8 × 12 7/8 × 1 1/2 in. (32.7 × 32.7 × 3.8 cm)
• Place depicted: Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Architecture
• Topic: Art
• Topic: Hip-hop (Music)
• Topic: Housing
• Topic: Urban planning
• Object number: 2023.92.1.4
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of African American History and Culture through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed. The underlying object's rights statement is: © Sekou Cooke Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.