So Be It! Asé! Photographic Echoes of FESTAC ’77:
Roy Lewis, K. Kofi Moyo, Bob Crawford
Essay by Romi Crawford, Ph.D.
Softcover, 106 pages, English
Published by GRAY
$50
Ships from Chicago
A series of exhibitions and writings over the last few years reflects the recent surge of interest in FESTAC. In highlighting the work of these three artists, the exhibition provides new insights on the historic event and its impact on subsequent generations. Now, forty-six years since its occurrence, FESTAC is receiving much deserved re-examination from contemporary critics and historians. Accompanying the exhibition, GRAY will release a fully illustrated catalogue, including an essay by curator Romi Crawford and first-person accounts by two of the exhibiting photographers, as well as several artists involved in the Black Arts Movement who participated in FESTAC, such as Darlene Blackburn, Val Gray Ward, and Charlotte Ka, among others.