We Outchea: Hip-Hop Fabrications and Public Space, Collage Study 7: 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 digital illustration takes a black-and-white photograph of Schor’s Meats Market of the 15th Ward in Syracuse, New York. The street photograph captures cars parked in front of store fronts and hours, with Schor’s on the right side and a woman walking in by the market on the right. The sky has been highlighted orange. In the top left corner, large white text reads [“IT WAS, OF COURSE, NO ACCIDENT / THAT NEARLY ALL OF SYRACUSE’S / AFRICAN-AMERICANS WERE CONFINED / TO ONE DISTRICT.”].

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

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 2020
• Created by: Sekou Cooke, Jamaican American
• Subject of: Schor's Meat Market, American, 1974
• Type: digital media - born digital
• Medium: digital
• Dimensions: File size: 70.74 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: 2023.63.8
• 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.