-
for artsy types & black modernists
Sargent Claude Johnson
A rich reappraisal of a key Black American modernist through a lens of cross-cultural engagement Sargent Claude Johnson (1888-1967) was the first Black modernist on...
Regular price $40.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Seeing
Nigerian-born British fashion designer Duro Olowu is internationally renowned for his womenswear label launched in 2004 that speaks to a cosmopolitan sensibility informed by his...
Regular price $40.00Regular priceUnit price perSold out -
SEEN Journal
Issue 001
Seen: A Journal of Film & Visual Culture Through the years of producing the festival, we have learned from our audiences that in order to shift the...
Regular price $20.00Regular priceUnit price perSold out -
SEEN Journal
Issue 002
Seen: A Journal of Film & Visual Culture Spring 2021 • Issue 002 Dessane Lopez Cassell — Guest Editor Caroline Washington — Art Director Nehad Khader — Managing Editor Leo...
Regular price $20.00Regular priceUnit price per -
SEEN Journal
Issue 003
Seen: A Journal of Film & Visual Culture Seen • Fall 2021 • Issue 003Guest edited by Darol Olu Kae.Cover image from Eyes on the Prize:...
Regular price $20.00Regular priceUnit price perSold out -
Regular price From $15.00Regular priceUnit price per
$20.00Sale price From $15.00SEEN Journal
Issue 004
SaleSEEN Journal
Issue 004
Seen Journal • Summer 2022 • Issue 004 Guest edited by Darol Olu Kae Cover photo of Martine Syms by Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. Cover designed by...
Regular price From $15.00Regular priceUnit price per$20.00Sale price From $15.00Sale -
SEEN Journal
Issue 005
The Dreams Issue | Winter 2023 FeaturingAnaïs Duplan, Aurella Yussuf, Beandrea July, Cauleen Smith, Clarkisha Kent, Deborah Anzinger, Dessane Lopez Cassell, Flordalis Espinal, Ifeanyi Awachie,...
Regular price $20.00Regular priceUnit price perSold out -
SEEN Journal
Issue 006
Fall 2023 | Print | Issue 006FeaturingColman Domingo, Lily Gladstone, Charles Gaines, Danielle Deadwyler, James Ijames, Abigail Lucien, Ja'Tovia Gary, Isabelia Herrera, Kelli Weston, Simran...
Regular price $20.00Regular priceUnit price per -
SEEN Journal
Issue 007
Fall 2024 | Print | Issue 007Guest Edited by Ja'Tovia Gary Seen guest editor and artist Ja'Tovia Gary and philosopher Dr. Joy James talk rebirth, black feminism, and hope as...
Regular price $20.00Regular priceUnit price perSold out -
Shaniqwa Jarvis
Shaniqwa Jarvis's self-titled, debut photography monograph spans 160 pages and two decades of Jarvis’ archive of photography. Emphatic and raucous, Jarvis's vivid portraits are coupled...
Regular price $85.00Regular priceUnit price perSold out -
Regular price $65.00Regular priceUnit price per
Shikeith
Notes Towards Becoming a Spill
Shikeith
Notes Towards Becoming a Spill
The first monograph by sculptor, filmmaker, and photographer Shikeith, Notes towards Becoming a Spill brings together a series of striking studio portraits of Black male subjects as...
Regular price $65.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Regular price $65.00Regular priceUnit price per
Shining Lights
Black Women Photographers in 1980s-'90s Britain
Shining Lights
Black Women Photographers in 1980s-'90s Britain
Shining Lights is the first critical anthology of Black women photo-graphers active in the UK during the 1980s and 1990s, providing a richly illustrated overview...
Regular price $65.00Regular priceUnit price per -
for the feminist getting their MFA
Simone Leigh
The first major monograph on Simone Leigh's multimedia explorations of community, Black feminism and the traditions and material cultures of the African diaspora Over the...
Regular price $75.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Regular price $22.95Regular priceUnit price per
Sista Said
Words of Wisdom from Women of Color in Social Justice & the Arts
Sista Said
Words of Wisdom from Women of Color in Social Justice & the Arts
Two sets of 20 unique letterpress postcards featuring quotes by iconic Black women, from Audre Lorde to Octavia Butler This freshly commissioned set of postcards...
Regular price $22.95Regular priceUnit price per -
Regular price $25.00Regular priceUnit price per
SKEW Magazine
Issue 02 (Black Dreams, Futures, & Mutual Support)
Sold outSKEW Magazine
Issue 02 (Black Dreams, Futures, & Mutual Support)
100 full-color pages of beautiful, radical, queer, visionary Black art that makes the perfect coffee table book or gift! This year’s SKEW Magazine is curated...
Regular price $25.00Regular priceUnit price perSold out -
Regular price $30.00Regular priceUnit price per
SKEW Magazine
Issue 03 (Black Abundance)
SKEW Magazine
Issue 03 (Black Abundance)
SKEW is Level Ground’s experimental art + dialogue magazine. Building on last year’s precedent, SKEW 03 is cooperatively owned by this issue’s curators, designer, and...
Regular price $30.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Regular price $25.00Regular priceUnit price per
SKEW Magazine
Issue 04 (Black Embodiment)
SKEW Magazine
Issue 04 (Black Embodiment)
SKEW Magazine is Level Ground’s experimental art + dialogue magazine; an annual Black art and dialogue print publication with an accompanying digital hub that is cooperatively...
Regular price $25.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Regular price $30.95Regular priceUnit price per
Slaves to Fashion
Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity
Slaves to Fashion
Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity
Slaves to Fashion is a pioneering cultural history of the black dandy, from his emergence in Enlightenment England to his contemporary incarnations in the cosmopolitan art...
Regular price $30.95Regular priceUnit price per -
Somaya Critchlow
Paintings
Critchlow’s portraits of Black women transform Western portraiture and conflate kitsch with tradition Somaya Critchlow’s canvases and sketchbooks log an ongoing process of world building....
Regular price $40.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Regular price $45.00Regular priceUnit price per
Soul of a Nation
Art in the Age of Black Power
Soul of a Nation
Art in the Age of Black Power
Black art in the era of Malcolm X and the Black Panthers In the period of radical change that was 1963–83, young black artists at the...
Regular price $45.00Regular priceUnit price per -
for your favorite unc or letterboxd lovers
Spike
Spike Lee is a world-renowned, Academy Award–winning filmmaker, a cultural icon, and one of the most prominent voices on race and racism for more than...
Regular price $50.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Regular price $39.95Regular priceUnit price per
Spike Lee
Director's Inspiration
Spike Lee
Director's Inspiration
An inspirational trove of film posters and ephemera, photographs, artwork and more from the collection of Spike Lee For nearly four decades, Spike Lee has...
Regular price $39.95Regular priceUnit price per -
for the foodie friend or the starter cookRegular price $45.00Regular priceUnit price per
Start Here
Instructions for Becoming a Better Cook
Start Here
Instructions for Becoming a Better Cook
Change the way you think about cooking! In this epic guide to better eating, the chef, recipe developer, and video producer Sohla El-Waylly reimagines what...
Regular price $45.00Regular priceUnit price per -
for the advanced style loversRegular price $35.00Regular priceUnit price per
Stepping Out
The Unapologetic Style of African Americans Over Fifty
Stepping Out
The Unapologetic Style of African Americans Over Fifty
An unapologetically bold, stimulating, and inspired collection of photographs and profiles celebrating the style of African Americans age 50+ Long inspired by mature adults daring...
Regular price $35.00Regular priceUnit price per