Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. collection, circa 1992-2026 | Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Title: Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. collection, circa 1992-2026

ID: 01/MSS00100

Primary Creator: Kennedy, Amos Paul, Jr.

Extent: 20.0 Cubic Feet

Arrangement:

The Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. collection consists of 15 series arranged by chronologically by year of accession. Series X combines unidentified pre-2011 accessions.

The collection is described at the item level. The contents of each print are transcribed in quotations, following the capitalization and wording of the prints as closely as possible.

Information contained in parentheses within the quotation marks is found at the top or bottom of the print. Often this information refers to the source of the quotation on the print or an organization involved with the event promoted on the print.

Text on the background of the prints is included in brackets within quotations. Any information in brackets outside of the quotations indicates design related characteristics of the given print to distinguish it from other prints with identical text.

Date Acquired: 00/00/1997

Subjects: Artists' Books - United States, Kuba (African people), Smoking -- Folklore, Tales -- Congo (Democratic Republic), Tales -- Nigeria, Yoruba (African people) -- Folklore

Forms of Material: African Americans - Music, American poetry, Christmas music, Miniature Books, Postcards, Proverbs, African, Spirituals (Songs)

Languages: English

This collection consists of letterpress art printed at Kennedy Prints!, Jubilee Press (also Jubalee), or elsewhere by Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. (1948-), an American letterpress printer, papermaker, educator, and social activist. Formats include postcards, posters, state road maps, and hand fans. There is also some additional promotional material for events with which Kennedy was involved. Some items for this collection are individually cataloged and searchable in Primo at the link below. Many are also digitized and available to view online as part of our Digital Collections.

See Administrative/Biographical History and Administrative Information for more information.

Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. was born in Lafayette, Louisiana, in 1948. His father, Amos Paul Kennedy Sr., was a professor of agriculture and chemistry who taught at numerous historically black colleges and universities (HBCU) throughout his professional career. In 1972, Kennedy Jr. earned a BA in mathematics at Grambling University, and went on to pursue an MA in education.

Kennedy spent time in the Peace Corps during graduate school, which gave him the opportunity to teach mathematics in Liberia for 18 months. After contracting and recovering from malaria, he returned to the United States and settled in Gaithersburg, Maryland, taking a position with IBM as a systems programmer. He worked there for three years before moving to Cleveland, Ohio, where he worked for various computer firms and revived his interest in graduate school—this time for library science.

In 1981, Kennedy moved to Chicago, however, which once again put his formal academic plans on hold. While working for AT&T, he studied calligraphy as a hobby and took letterpress courses at Artist's Book Works, a small non-profit papermaking studio that opened in 1983. His initial interest in the printmaking process was peaked during a trip to Colonial Williamsburg, where he saw the town’s 18th century print shop and book bindery. After six months of coursework, Kennedy came into his own press and, being gifted four cabinets of type by a seasoned printer, quickly transformed his basement into a print shop. This private press was called Idiot Press, its name changing to Kennedy and Sons Fine Printing once he shifted his focus to commercial printing, and later to Jubilee Press (also Jubalee).

In 1995, Kennedy began graduate school at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and studied graphic design under Walter Hamady (1940-2019), also taking courses on the history of African art and Vodún. At this time, he moved to Bayside, a suburb of Milwaukee, and worked out of a studio there. He graduated with an MFA in 1997, and in 1998, became the first Black faculty member in the School of Fine Arts at Indiana University.

While living in York, Alabama, in 2002, Kennedy shifted his interest from books to posters and cards. He spent much of the next decade honing his craft in a series of small Alabama towns while traveling to teach, speak, and sell his work. In 2008, he moved to Detroit, Michigan where he established his print shop, Kennedy Prints!.

Using wood type and hand presses, Kennedy produces large editions of wildly colorful, typographically driven posters on inexpensive chipboard stock. His method often involves overprinting multiple layers of text and making constant, subtle alterations to the color of the inks throughout each press run, making each print being subtly unique. He passionately addresses issues of race, freedom, and equality in his work, often incorporating proverbs and tales of the Kuba and Yoruba people of Africa, as well as the work of Black American poets, such as Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906). Kennedy has printed under a number of press names, including York Show Prints, Kennedy & Sons, Fine Printers, and Kennedy Prints!

As more and more artists seek to steer away from computer-generated art, Kennedy is often credited with the revival of the letterpress in contemporary and folk art.

Artists' Books - United States
Kuba (African people)
Smoking -- Folklore
Tales -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
Tales -- Nigeria
Yoruba (African people) -- Folklore

Repository: Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Access Restrictions: Open to researchers.

Use Restrictions:

The RBML reproductions policies can be found here:

http://www.library.illinois.edu/rbx/ReproductionServices.htm

The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted materials.

Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be "used for any purpose other than private study scholarship or research." If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of "fair use," that user may be liable for copyright infringement.

This institution reserves the right to refuse to accept a copying order if, in its judgement, fulfillment of the order would damage materials or involve violation of copyright law.

Related Materials:

Amos Kennedy Digital Collection

Interview with Amos Kennedy (University of Wisconsin, Madison Library)

Amos Kennedy print collection (Library of Congress)

Processing Information: https://wiki.cites.uiuc.edu/wiki/display/librare/Home

Finding Aid Revision History: Revised 03/05/2026.

URL: https://go.library.illinois.edu/AmosPaulKennedyJrCatalog

Box and Folder Listing

Series 1: 2011 Accessions

Sub-series 1: Small prints

Box 1

Folder 1: “Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. will be TALKin’ LOUd & SAYin’ NOTHIN’”, 2007

Folder 2: “CA$H & CARRY POSTER SALE, Letterpress posters from the Alabama’s Black Belt”, 2007

“The two of WAVERLY, Alabama presents The 7th Annual Old 280 Boogie (standarddeluxe.com)” on back.

Folder 3: “How I Spent My Summer Vacation! A SHOW & TELL of books by Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.”, 2007

Folder 4: “AFFORDABLE CHRISTMAS CRAFT SHOW, FREE ADMISSION”, 2008

“This Craft Show is a fundraiser for Brown Finch Films for two documentaries in the works and is also a Goodbye Party for Peaceful Yoga which is closing it’s doors in three weeks. COME SUPPORT LOCAL ARTIST!” on back.

Folder 5: “CA$H & CARRY, A sale of posters from the deep South… (The Newark Public LIBRARY)”, 2008

“Do you know Scott?” on back.

Folder 6: “Please come to the screening of the film PROCEED AND BE BOLD! (The Newark Public Library)”, 2008

Folder 7: “Put the message in the hands of the people and MOVE ON! A tirade from Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. (The Newark Public LIBRARY)”, 2008

“Do you know Scott?” on back.

Folder 8: “ONE & OTHER, LONDON 2009”, 2009

Folder 9: “PROCEED AND BE BOLD! (20K Films)”, 2009

“The Langston Hughes African American Film Festival presents Proceed and Be Bold, a film by Laura Zinger (langstonarts.org, proceedandbebold.org)” on back.

Folder 10: “812 BLOOMINGTON”, 2010

Design by Kim Ransdell.

Folder 11: “ALABAMA BOOK FESTIVAL”, 2010

Folder 12

Item 1: “CA$H & CARRY POSTER SALE”, 2010

“Around the Coyote, QUIT YOUR JOB AND BECOME AN ARTIST the exhibition… PROCEED AND BE BOLD screening… CASH & CARRY poster sale (aroundthecoyote.org)” on back.

Item 2: “PROCEED AND BE BOLD! (Brown Finch Films)”, 2010

“Around the Coyote, QUIT YOUR JOB AND BECOME AN ARTIST the exhibition… PROCEED AND BE BOLD screening… CASH & CARRY poster sale (aroundthecoyote.org)” on back.

Item 3: “QUIT YOUR JOB, BECOME AN ARTIST”, 2010

“Around the Coyote, QUIT YOUR JOB AND BECOME AN ARTIST the exhibition… PROCEED AND BE BOLD screening… CASH & CARRY poster sale (aroundthecoyote.org)” on back.

Folder 13: ”BREED LOVE”, 2010

Design by Kim Ransdell.

Folder 14: “CHEAP IS EXPENSIVE. The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the SWEETNESS of low price is forgotten”, 2010

Folder 15: “COLLECTIVE BARGAINING is a human right…. We are state employees, not state slaves”, 2010

“Soon 2 b former governor Scott Walker” on back.

Folder 16: “DRIVE BY PRESS! OMG”, 2010

“Designed by Guy N?, S. PROCHYKA, Feb. 7th, 2010” on back.

Folder 17: “EQUALITY IS A SPECIAL PRIVILEGE FOR BLACKS IN THESEUNITEDSTATESOFAMERICA”, 2010

Includes“CELEBRATE NEGRO HISTORY WEEK” mailing envelope.

Folder 18: “GINA RANTS on writing & performing rage (CAAS)”, 2010

Folder 19: “HAPPINESS IS SPOKEN HERE!”, 2010

“HOLLYWOOD MARKET (Boise, ID)” on back.

Folder 20

Item 1: “HEY BAMA. JUST SAY NO! TO STRIPMINING FOR COAL”, 2010

Item 2: “HEY BAMA. JUST SAY NO! TO STRIPMINING FOR COAL”, 2010

Uncut print.

Folder 21: “Hey Bama! THINK, Don’t sell your SOUL for coal! NAPPY makes you happy”, 2010

“Do you know Scott?” on back.

Folder 22: “HOPE is the pillar of the world”, 2010

Includes “hOpE” mailing envelope.

Folder 23: “I am aS SOUTHERn aS COLLARD greens”, 2010

Folder 24

Item 1: “I SUPPORT SINGLE PAYER HEALTH CARE AND I VOTE!”, 2010

Item 2: “I SUPPORT SINGLE PAYER HEALTH CARE AND I VOTE!”, 2010

Folder 25: “If everything you do is an experiment, you don’t have any failures. (Harry Riddick)”, 2010

Folder 26: “IF I CAN’T TRUST YOU WHO CAN YOU TRUST”, 2010

Includes “DETROIT PRINTS. PROTECT the COMMONS” mailing envelope and note from Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. regarding “perks.”

Folder 27: “JOHNS & SON Lawn Mower Repair Service”, 2010

Folder 28

Item 1: “We demand the very best from our clients. Kennedy Prints LLC”, 2010

Donkey graphic on back.

Item 2: “KENNEDY PRINTS! We demand the very BEST from our clients”, 2010

“www.kennedyprints.com” on back.

Folder 29: “Lancaster Community Library (lancasterlibrary.org)”, 2010

Folder 30

Item 1: “MERCURY POSTERS (ROCHESTER, NY)”, 2010

Item 2: “MERCURY POSTERS (ROCHESTER, NY)”, 2010

Folder 31: “Merry Christmas”, 2010

Folder 32: “NAPPY negroes in ART! I’se happy to be in NAPPY.”, 2010

Pin, with “www.nappygram.org” on back.

Folder 33: “POOR. Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. (James Baldwin)”, 2010

Includes “DETROIT PRINTS. Poverty ain’t cheap.” mailing envelope.

Folder 34

Item 1: “RACISM: an American family value”, 2010

Item 2: “RACISM. an American family value. Abuse of power is RACISM.”, 2010

Item 3: “RACISM. an American family value. CLASSISM is RACISM.”, 2010

Item 4: “RACISM. an American family value. DANGER, RACISM.”, 2010

Item 5: “RACISM. an American family value. HOMOPHOBIA is RACISM.”, 2010

Item 6: “RACISM. an American family value. SEXISM is RACISM”, 2010

Item 7: “RACISM. an American family value. Post racial is the new RACISM.”, 2010

Item 8: “RACISM. an American family value. Post racial my ass.”, 2010

Bright red.

Item 9: “RACISM. an American family value. Post racial my ass.”, 2010

Dark red.

Folder 35: “STAR CAFÉ”, 2010

Folder 36: “SUPPORT your neighborhood coffee shop”, 2010

“The Genesee Center for the Arts & Education invites YOU to a weekend of Letterpress merriment. Meet the humble negro printer from Alabama, watch the documentary film about him, hear him speak and buy lots of his inexpensive and provocative posters… (geneseearts.org).” on back.

Folder 37: “tcf”, 2010

Folder 38: “THANK YOU”, 2010

Design by Kim Ransdell.

Folder 39: “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is NOW! (A Chinese Proverb)”, 2010

Folder 40: “The Friends of the Wesleyan Library (wesleyan.edu/libr/friends)”, 2010

Folder 41: “This is not a postcard!”, 2010

Folder 42: “What kind of civilization builds monuments to its artists?”, 2010

Folder 43: U.S. stamp by Georg Olden commemorating the 100th year of the Emancipation Proclamation on Kennedy print, 2010

Text reads: “This stamp commemorates the 100th year of the Emancipation Proclamation. Georg Olden, famed graphic artist, became the first Black to design a U.S. postage stamp. It was issued on August 16, 1963. The stamp features severed link in a large black chain against a blue background.”

Folder 44

Item 1: “DOO-NANNY”, 2011

Item 2: “DOO-NANNY”, 2011

Folder 45: “Okra lovers UNITE! and celebrate the People’s vegetable at the Okra Festival… BURKVILLE, ALABAMA (okrafestival.org)”, 2011

“Okro tik de grow pas en master. (An okra tree does not grow taller than its master (Krio Proverb)” on back.

Folder 46: “The Friends of Hurricane Creek 16th annual cleanup of Hurricane Creek (hurricane-creek.org)”, 2011

Sub-series 2: Mid-size prints

Box 1

Folder 47: “Join us (hurricane-creek.org)”, 2011

Folder 48: “LONGWOOD UNIVERSITY GENERAL EDUCATION FILM SERIES”, 2007

Folder 49: “HANSON GALLERY presents GEE’S BEND TODAY: Messages from the Alabama Black Belt Region, ARTIST RECEPTION (hansongallery.com)”, 2008

Folder 50: “FOOD, 1 – home-grown is best, 2 – buy with thought, 3 – buy local food, 4 – cook it with care, 5 – serve just enough, 6 – use what is left, Don’t waste it”, 2010

National Recovery Administration stamp on bottom.

Folder 51: “PULL A PRINT WITH AMOS PAUL KENNEDY, JR., LEARN LETTERPRESS at HAMILTON WOOD TYPE MUSEUM (wisconsin.aiga.org)”, 2010

Folder 52: “AMERICA (Demopolis Public Library)”, 2010

Folder 53: “AROUND THE GLOBE (Demopolis Public Library)”, 2010

Folder 54: “COPING WITH LIFE (Demopolis Public Library)”, 2010

Folder 55: “CREATE & CELEBRATE (Demopolis Public Library)”, 2010

Folder 56: “IT’S ALIVE (Demopolis Public Library)”, 2010

Folder 57: “LET US PRAISE (Demopolis Public Library)”, 2010

Folder 58: “LET’S PLAY (Demopolis Public Library)”, 2010

Folder 59: “LOOK IT UP (Demopolis Public Library)”, 2010

Folder 60: “OUT OF THIS WORLD (Demopolis Public Library)”, 2010

Folder 61: “PLANET EARTH (Demopolis Public Library)”, 2010

Folder 62: “TELL A TALE (Demopolis Public Library)”, 2010

Folder 63: “THINGS THAT GO (Demopolis Public Library)”, 2010

Folder 64: “WEIRD SCIENCE (Demopolis Public Library)”, 2010

Folder 65: “YOU & ME (Demopolis Public Library)”, 2010

Folder 66: Mailing envelope with red snake, 2011

Sub-series 3: Publications and promotional materials

Box 2

Folder 1: “I BUILD BOOKS for the glory of my peoples!” mailer for event with Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. at Arts & Letters Café in Santa Barbara, California, 2003

Folder 2: Brochure for “Dual Commitment: Current Examples of Public Art Projects in the USA and in Austria” symposium, 2005

Folder 3: First Draft journal, 2005

Includes artwork by Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. on front cover.

Folder 4: Jubilation magazine, 2005

Features Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. in “Rural Renaissance: Artists Converge in an Unlikely West Alabama Town” by Jeana Durst.

Folder 5: Chicago Reader section two, 2006

Features work by Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. for the promotion of his “In Memoriam” exhibit at Las Manos.

Folder 6: “I KNEW SOMEONE HAD TO TAKE THE FIRST STEP AND I MADE UP MY MIND NOT TO MOVE.” postcard for “In Memoriam” exhibition at Las Manos Gallery, 2006

Folder 7: Kentucky Festival of the Arts program, 2007

Includes Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. as a participating artist.

Folder 8: “FREEDOM NOW!” booklet by Francesco Baldassare, Ivan Pengo, Moreno Chiodini, Adriano Porazi, and Amos Kennedy, 2008

Contains “WE WHO BELIevE IN FREEDOM CANNOT REST (Ella Baker) print by Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. with gold design

Folder 9: Tuscaloosa magazine, 2008

Includes “Amos Kennedy: the Journeyman Printer” by Janet Sudnik.

Folder 10: Progetto grafico magazine, 2008

Includes “Il messagio nelle mani del popolo, Amos Paul Kennedy Jr: Tipografo, Artigiano” and interview with Kate Ferrucci. Magazine encloses small booklet titled “Sistemi regolari di punti: I gruppi cristallografici di movimenti nel piano” by David Hilbert and Stefan Cohn-Vossen.

Folder 11: Step Inside Design magazine (the Self-Promotion Issue), 2008

Note: Includes “My First Time” by Christopher Simmons featuring artwork by Amos Paul Kennedy Jr.

Folder 12: “CONTENTS UNDER PRESSURE” catalog for “Art of the Contemporary Letterpress Poster” exhibition at Texas Tech University, 2009

Includes Kennedy Prints! and work by Amos Paul Kennedy Jr.

Folder 13: Mailer for “CONTENTS UNDER PRESSURE” at Texas Tech University School of Art, 2009

Folder 14: Program for the 7th annual American Black Film Festival in Montgomery, Alabama, 2009

Folder 15: Program for “Arbeiten oder nicht arbeiten: Soho in Ottakring” [“To Work or Not to Work”] event in Vienna, Austria, 2009

Folder 16: Mailer for Proceed and Be Bold!, a documentary film produced by Brown Finch Films & featuring Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. at the University of West Georgia, 2009

Folder 17: “art in migration” publication, 2009

Includes “Ladies no fighting in the bathroom” featuring Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. by Agnes Achola and Tapfuma Gusta.

Folder 18: Kentucky Festival of the Arts event program, 2010

Includes Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. as a participating artist.

Folder 19: “Southern As… by Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.” biographical handout for exhibition, 2010

Folder 20: Mailer for “Amos P. Kennedy Jr: Humble Negro Printer” exhibition at Northwest Nazarene University’s Friesen Galleries and “Proceed and Be Bold” film screening at Boise State University, 2010

Folder 21: Southern Living magazine, 2010

Folder 22: Ticket for Proceed and Be Bold at St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival, 2010

Folder 23: Program for Miles College’s Black History Month Celebration with Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr., 2011

Folder 24: “AmoS KENneDY PRiNTS CoMmuNitY FOLk Art CENtEr” mailer for Cash and Carry Gallery Reception at Community Folk Art Center in Syracuse, New York, 2011

Includes exhibition of Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. prints, an artist workshop, and a film screening.

Folder 25: Mailer for Montserrat College of Art’s spring 2011 visiting artists, 2011

Includes talk and “Layers Upon Layers Upon Layers” workshop given by Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. as well as a screening of Proceed and Be Bold and a cocktail reception with Kennedy following the film.

Folder 26: Mailer for exhibition of Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. printed ephemera at Redline Milwaukee, undated

Folder 27: “Art on the Rocks: Schedule of Events for Friday the 16th” flyer for “The Art of the Print: Featuring Old Masters to Modern Methods & Todd Snider”, undated

Includes artist print demonstration by Amos Paul Kennedy Jr.

Box 17

Folder 1: The Daily Toreador newspaper, 2009

Includes “Guest artist speaks about importance of printing press” by Alexandra Pedrini.

Folder 2: Alabama Book Festival event program, 2010

Includes Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. as a participating artist.

Folder 3: The Crimson White newspaper, 2011

Includes “Printing press artist Amos Paul Kennedy holds workshop” by unknown author.

Sub-series 4: Posters

Box 18

Folder 1: “ONE NIGHT STAND, AMOS PAUL KENNEDY, JR. LETTERPRESS POSTER SHOW, OFF THE WALL SALE”, 2008

Folder 2: “1959-2009, The Society for ECONOMIC BOTANY founded in 1959 to FOSTER AND ENCOURAGE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, EDUCATION aNd RELATED ACTIVITIES ON The PAST PRESENT and FUTURE USES Of PLANTs AND THE RELATIONSHIP BeTwEen PLANTS and PEOPLE”, 2009

Folder 3: “Come See Jackson’s FINEST! KING ELEMENTARY, THE DA VINCIS & BOYSCOUT, LIVE MUSIC at The GARDEN CENTER (Starkville, MS)”, 2009

Folder 4: “FLIMP FESTIVAL WITH AN ITALIAN FLAIR”, 2009

Folder 5: “PRINT DIALOGUE DAYS, Printmaking, like sex, is not solely about reproduction”, 2009

Folder 6: “The Crossroads Arts Alliance presents FALL ART WALK In honor of Ma’Cille House’s 100th birthday”, 2009

Folder 7: “The Crossroads Arts Alliance presents JERRY & JOHNNY”, 2009

Folder 8: “TIRE TIRE TIRE TIRE TIRE TOWER OF CONCRETE! 1st YEAR ARCHITECTURE 2009, Andrew Robertson, Zach James”, 2009

Folder 9: “1910, 2010, OX BOW, A HAVEN FOR ARTISTS”, 2010

Folder 10: “a RIVER That FORGEtS itS SOURCE DRIES UP (henrydrewal.com)”, 2010

Folder 11: “A visiting production at the Comedy Sportz Theater DEATH 40 FEET TALL (hollywoodfringe.org, ComedySportzLA.com/Fringe)”, 2010

Folder 12: “Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. is TaLKiN’ LouD & Sayin’ NOThIN’”, 2010

Folder 13: “ANY FREQUENCY (Monticello, IL), Support Independent Record Stores, RECORD STORE DAY (shannoncurfman.com, myspace.com/phantogram, recordstoreday.com)”, 2010

Folder 14: “ARBEITEN ODER NICHT ARBEITEN”, 2010

Folder 15: “ART AUCTION FOR HAITI… LITTLE BUILDING CAFE (Starkville, Mississippi)”, 2010

Folder 16: “At 3 o’clock in the morning you can ride Theodore Tugboat”, 2010

Folder 17: “BE THOUGHTFUL, RESPECTFUL AND KIND,” [purple], 2010

Folder 18: “BE THOUGHTFUL, RESPECTFUL AND KIND,” [orange], 2010

Folder 19: “CHILDREN Tired of Being Harrassed by Your Stupid Parents? ACT NOW! Move Out, Get a JOB, Pay Your Own Bills, While You Still KNOW EVERYTHING!”, 2010

Folder 20: “CLAIM YOUR COOKiTTUDE, A celebration of everyday cooking”, 2010

Printed at the Food Culture Crossroads Press (tastingcultures.org).

Folder 21: “COFFEE MADE ME BLACK”, 2010

Folder 22: “COFFEE MADE ME GAY”, 2010

Folder 23: “COFFEE MADE ME QUEER”, 2010

Folder 24: “COFFEE MAKES YOU GAY”, 2010

Folder 25: “DILUTE SPIceS TO ADD FLAVOR (FOODWAYS BULLETIN NO. 1 FROM THE THE KITCHEN, The First Scientific Laboratory)”, 2010

Printed at the Food Culture Crossroads Press (tastingcultures.org).

Folder 26: “Don’t be a credit card SHARECROPPER!”, 2010

Folder 27: “First National Bank of Central Alabama presents BARRY BRADFORD’s The Face In The Courthouse Window (CARROLLTON, ALABAMA)”, 2010

Folder 28: “FRIENDSHIP IS LIKE PEEING ON YOURSELF, EVERYONE CAN SEE IT BUT ONLY YOU GET THE WARM FEELING”, 2010

Folder 29: “GigGLING Gardens, SEED BY SEED, MEAL BY MEAL”, 2010

Printed at the Food Culture Crossroads Press (tastingcultures.org).

Folder 30: “GIVE ME HUmOR OR GIVE ME DEATH”, 2010

Folder 31: “GUIDE US that awake we WAKING may watch with O LORD CHRIST AND GUARD US and asleep we may SLEEPING rest in peace”, 2010

Folder 32

Item 1: “HAITI, HAITI, Because when GOD is too Busy Haiti, me and THE WORLD GINA ATHENA ULTSSE weaves spoken word and Vodou chants to reflect on childrenhood memories, social (in)justice, spirituality, and the dehumanization of Haitians (epiphany-chicago.org, haitisoleil.org, inured.org)”, 2010

Item 2: “HAITI, HAITI, Because when GOD is too Busy Haiti, me and THE WORLD GINA ATHENA ULTSSE weaves spoken word and Vodou chants to reflect on childrenhood memories, social (in)justice, spirituality, and the dehumanization of Haitians (epiphany-chicago.org, haitisoleil.org, inured.org)”, 2010

Folder 33: “I AM A MEMBER, INSTITUTE 193 (institute193.org)”, 2010

Folder 34: “I AM BORN TO WIN AND I WILL WIN WIN WIN”, 2010

Made by Kim Ransdell.

Folder 35: “I saw GOD YesTeRDAY WALKINg AND TALkING WITH The MiLkMAN! LAST WEEK I SAW THE DEVIL WaLkING HaND IN HAND WITH thE PRESIDENT. (EXUMa The OBEAH mAN)”, 2010

Signature by Sarah Al. on border.

Folder 36: “IF YOU ARE WALKING ON THIN ICE YOU MIGHT AS WELL DANCE”, 2010

Made by Kim Ransdell.

Folder 37: “IS THERE HOPE?”, 2010

Folder 38: “Josee Andrei, an InSANE PORTRAIT, Michigan Films & Rien a Voir Productions (aninsaneportrait.us)”, 2010

Folder 39: “LANGSTON HUGHES AFRICAN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL, at various locations in SEATTLE (langstonblackfilmfest.org, filmfestinfo@langstonarts.org)”, 2010

Folder 40: “LONGWOOD UNIVERSITY General Education Film Series”, 2010

Folder 41: “MY HEART TELLS ME TO ADVANCE AND EXPECT A THOUSAND HAPPY EVENTS (MIGUEL de CERVANTES)”, 2010

Made by Kim Ransdell.

Folder 42: “NEVER GIVE UP! NEVER GIVE UP! NEVER GIVE UP! [HOPE]”, 2010

Made by Kim Ransdell.

Folder 43: “NO ONE PERSON CAN DO EVERYTHING… BUT WE CAN ALL DO SOMETHING (TRACY EDIGER)”, 2010

Folder 44: “OKRA FESTIVAL, Celebrating the people’s vegetable since 2000 (BURKEVILLE, AL)”, 2010

Folder 45: “ONLY TO THE EXTENT THAT WE EXPOSE OURSELVES OVER & OVER TO ANNIHILATION CAN THAT WHICH IS INDESTRUCTIBLE BE FOUND IN US”, 2010

Made by Kim Ransdell at The Collective Press.

Folder 46: “OUR RECIPES CONTAIN THE SIGNATURES OF THOSE WHO CAME BEFORE AND AFTER HER”, 2010

Printed at the Food Culture Crossroads Press (tastingcultures.org).

Box 19

Folder 1: “Principles of American Capitalism, BACKED BY THE FULL FAITH AND CREDIT OF THE US TAX PAYERS, Force the citizens of these United States of America to pay us for ANY and ALL losses we incur while trying to maximize profits”, 2010

Folder 2: “Principles of American Capitalism, PRIVATIZE PROFITS, SOCIALIZE RISKS”, 2010

Folder 3: “Principles of American Capitalism, THE AMERICAN CAPITALIST DOES NOT BELIEVE IN CAPITALISM”, 2010

Folder 4: “Principles of American Capitalism, TOO BIG TO FAIL. The citizens of these United States of America will pay the BAIL”, 2010

Folder 5: “PRINTERS’ FAIR (ANNA TEMPLETON CENTRE)”, 2010

Folder 6: “PROCEED AND BE BOLD! A Film By Laura Zinger”, 2010

Folder 7: “RHYTHM & HUES Concert and Art Walk”, 2010

Folder 8: “RUN WOLVES RUN (SEAN HAYES) (seanhayesmusic.com)”, 2010

Folder 9: “SAVE OUR FORESTS”, 2010

Folder 10: “SPRING 2010 FAIRHOPE FILM SERIES”, 2010

Folder 11: “Take Back The Streets presents Feed The HUNGRY, FOOD CHAIN BENEFIT (takebackthestreets[at]mchsi.com)”, 2010

Folder 12: “TASTING CULTURES FOUNDATION”, 2010

Printed at the Food Culture Crossroads Press (tastingcultures.org).

Folder 13: “TED SIROTA’s REBEL SOULS (CHICAGO JAZZ FESTIVAL)”, 2010

Folder 14: “THE FUTURE belongs to those who are PASSIONATE and WORK HARD. (In celebration of Tim Flinn’s remission from acute myeloid leukemia)”, 2010

Folder 15: “THE TRUTH COMES SLOWLY. (PROVERB FROM AFRICA) (DR. DJO BI PRODUCTIONS, COTE D’IVOIRE)”, 2010

Folder 16: “THEY MAY HAVE COME EmPTY-HANDeD, But NOT EmPtY-HeaDeD & SOME CaME WiTH SEEDS HIDDEN IN THEIR HAIR (henrydrewal.com)”, 2010

Folder 17: “THIS IS A PRINTING PRESS NOT A TABLE!”, 2010

Folder 18: “THIS IS THE DREAM BALLET”, 2010

Folder 19: “WASTE IS FUEL. PEOPLE, PLANET, PROFIT, PROGRESS (southernecogroup.com)”, 2010

Folder 20: “WHATEVER YOU CAN DO OR DREAM YOU CAN. BEGIN IT. BOLDNESS HAS GENIUS, POWER & MAGIC IN IT. BEGIN IT NOW! (W.H. MURRAY)”, 2010

Folder 21

Item 1: “When a thief gets real good he runs for office. (BOOTH HUGHES)”, 2010

Item 2: “When a thief gets real good she runs for office. (BOOTH HUGHES)”, 2010

Folder 22: “WHEN IT PAINS IT ROARS”, 2010

Folder 23: “WITHOUT PURPOSE, ABUSE IS INEVITABLE (Murithii Muriuki Wamae)”, 2010

Folder 24: “WYGOE, AZOS, FUN & MERRIMENT in Kentville”, 2010

Folder 25: “YESTERDAY IS ASHES, TOMORROW IS WOOD, ONLY TODAY DOES THE FIRE BURN BRIGHTLY”, 2010

Made by Kim Ransdel

Folder 26: “ART REVOLUTIONS, Artists create identities for cultures and societies. (colum.edu/criticalencounters)”, 2011

Folder 27: “ART RIGHTS, Artists enhance our civic engagement. (colum.edu/criticalencounters)”, 2011

Folder 28: “EVERYTHiNG is Gonna BE ALRighT”, 2011

Made by Kim Ransdell at The Collective Press.

Folder 29: “FOOD is ETHNIC (tastingcultures.org)”, 2011

Printed at Food Culture Crossroads Press.

Folder 30: “I’ve never known any trouble that an hour’s reading didn’t assuage. (Charles De Secondat), ALABAMA BOOK FESTIVAL”, 2011

Folder 31: “The Friends of Hurricane Creek’s 16th annual cleanup of Hurricane Creek, CLEAN UP (hurricane-creek.org)”, 2011

Folder 32: “the SUB CONDIMeNT”, 2011

Folder 33: “WHEN in DOUBT MarINatE (FOODWAYS BULLETIN No. 2 FROM THE THE KITCHEN, The First Scientific Laboratory)”, 2011

Printed at Food Culture Crossroads Press.

Folder 34

Item 1: “white girls can’t skip", 2001

Item 2: “White girls can’t skip!”, 2001

Folder 35: “ART BUILDS COMMUNITY!”, 2010

Folder 36: “ROUNDWOOD, AUBURN UNIVERSITY RURAL STUDIO (ruralstudio.com, auburn.edu)”, 2010

Folder 37: “The Negro Speaks of Rivers (To W.E.B DuBois)” from Langston Hughes, undated

Folder 38

Item 1: “EQUALITY IS A SPECIAL PRIVILEGE FOR BLACKS, in these unitedstatesofamerica", undated

Printed on the United States Constitution, print on both sides of poster

Item 2: “EQUALITY IS A SPECIAL PRIVILEGE FOR BLACKS, in these unitedstatesofamerica", undated

Printed on the United States Constitution, print on both sides of poster