We Outchea: Hip-Hop Fabrications and Public Space, Collage Study 9: 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 public housing complexes Judge Langston C. McKinney Manor and Pioneer Houses in Syracuse, New York. The top view captures the complexes divided by South Townsend St., McKinney Manor on the left and Pioneer Homes on the right. Two McKinney Manor terrace’s cul-de-sac and the street edge of Pioneer Homes with their surrounding structures are outlined. On top of the public housing outline are flattened rectangles filled with repeatedly lines or a grid patterns. There are white horizontally and vertically laid rectangular structures and small, orange rectangular structures. Screen printed over the print is an blueprint of a housing complex in a dark color ink. 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, on the right.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 2020
• Created by: Sekou Cooke, Jamaican American
• Subject of: Judge Langston C. McKinney Manor, American, founded 1990
• 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: 2023.92.1.9
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• 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.