We Outchea: Hip-Hop Fabrications and Public Space, Collage Study 6: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A digital illustration by Sekou Cooke as part of the collage studies from “We Outchea: Hip-Hop Fabrications and Public Space.” The 2-D digital rendering is black and white with two structures and a sky with clouds as the background. On the left is a four-story structure with outlines of a person on the each of the top two floors. Next to it is a two-story structure with orange components. The top floor of this smaller structure depicts four women, two sitting in salon-like chairs and two standing behind them. On the first floor, one person is inside and one person is on the stoop of the smaller structure. There are two other people at the bottom of the stoop. To the far right is an orange component with a child presumably writing on the floor. In the top right corner, large white text reads [“THIS RESULTED IN SLATING THE / AREA FOR TOTAL CLEARANCE. AS AN / AFTERTHOUGHT THE PROBLEM OF / RELOCATION WAS CONSIDERED.”].

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

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 2020
• Created by: Sekou Cooke, Jamaican American
• Type: digital media - born digital
• Medium: digital
• Dimensions: File size: 47.36 MB
• Place depicted: Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Architecture
• Topic: Art
• Topic: Communities
• Topic: Hip-hop (Music)
• Topic: Housing
• Topic: Urban planning
• Object number: 2023.63.7
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Sekou Cooke
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Sources and reuse

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.