We Outchea: Hip-Hop Fabrications and Public Space, Collage Study 8: 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 one of three terraces of public housing complex Judge Langston C. McKinney Manor in Syracuse, New York. The top view captures the terrace’s cul-de-sac and surrounding structures. On top of the public housing outline are other structures filled with repeatedly horizontal lines or a grid patterns. There are four scattered orange structures in the illustration where a grid pattern-filled structure and a vertical-filled structure overlap. At the center and stretching out to the right are several interior layouts of a housing complex. Screen printed over the print is an outline of the blueprint for the McKinney Manor in a dark color ink. At the bottom is bold text reading [NEW YORK 1.18 / SYRACUSE HOUSING AUTHORITY / Syracuse, New York]. 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 bottom row, middle.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 2020
• Created by: Sekou Cooke, Jamaican American
• Subject of: Judge Langston C. McKinney Manor, American, founded 1990
• 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: 2023.92.1.8
• 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.