Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites During the Jim Crow Era Artist Editions + Glass lens face

+ Glass lens face

The first comprises seven essays that serve as an interpretive framework for the exhibition

Each cluster of stars is featured alongside the "story" (mythological or historical) behind its naming

and watercolored* by hand on 100% cotton Cranes 110 lb lettra paper (Pearl White)

An essay by Lynn Zelevansky reflects on her own long-standing engagement with Kusama’s work and the ways in which it

Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites During the Jim Crow Era Artist Editions + Glass lens faceAs Southern California was reimagining leisure and positioning it at the center of the American Dream, African American Californians were working to make that leisure an open, inclusive reality. By occupying recreational sites and public spaces, African Americans challenged racial hierarchies and marked a space of Black identity on the regional landscape and social space. In Living the California Dream, Alison Rose Jefferson examines how African