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Crafted Kinship Releases on October 29, 2024
Through powerful interviews with more than 60 artists and designers of Caribbean heritage, each accompanied by gorgeous photographs, Crafted Kinship takes readers on a unique journey through the world of Black Caribbean creativity. Each crafts a kinship with the land, the people, the culture. An art that explores and reflects deeply on themes like African origins, ancestors, Black womanhood and manhood, identity, joy, memory, and the complicated and painful history of migration and diaspora. An art that is more often than not multidisciplinary, created by makers who eschew traditional labels by reshaping the boundaries around art and design.
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Scenes and outtakes from the book
Crafted Kinship is a beautifully designed and well-crafted vessel that houses and honors the ancestral energy of the past and airtsts of a coming time. Through narrative, Barnett reminds us that we should never forget the creative ingenuity (in both form and content) of the Caribbean diaspora. Despite fragmentation, dislocation, and colonialism, the archive is living and is transmitted through the hands and movement of bodies. The narratives presented are both forms of resistance and celebrations of everyday life.
—Myron M. Beasley, Ph.D. American Studies & Curator, Bates College