{"product_id":"willie-birch","title":"Willie Birch","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA career retrospective of a singular voice in contemporary American art, featuring six decades of artwork that chronicles his vision of the Black American experience\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eNew Orleans–based artist, community organizer, and cultural provocateur Willie Birch (b. 1942) has dedicated his career to storytelling. His incisive work across a wide variety of media—including paintings, large-scale drawings, wood and papier-mâché sculpture, and public works—explores his unique vision of Black America and draws on sources as diverse as Egyptian numerology, American folk art, and jazz music.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThis book showcases more than one hundred of Birch’s artworks alongside essays by eminent scholars and curators. Russell Lord provides an introduction to the artist’s life and work; Lowery Stokes Sims writes about Birch’s use of papier-mâché, for which he garnered acclaim during his time in New York City, and situates Birch within the New York art scene of the 1980s and ’90s; Grace Deveney considers the ways Birch gives visual form to the complex relationship between Black Americans and mass media; and Leslie King Hammond discusses how the city of New Orleans—its history and its communities—has shaped Birch’s work.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePublished in association with the American Federation of Arts\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eExhibition Schedule:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCalifornia African American Museum, Los Angeles\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMay 5–October 4, 2026\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew Orleans Museum of Art\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarch 20–September 5, 2027\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMuseum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, University of North Florida\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOctober 28, 2027–May 14, 2028\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHudson River Museum\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeptember 22, 2028–January 14, 2029\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56413936877912,"sku":"9780300286854","price":49.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780300286854_ee74da6b-94d8-4e23-abe5-75d04178e281.jpg?v=1778306490","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/willie-birch","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}