Juneteenth
2005
Artist
Amos Paul Kennedy Jr.
Printer
York Show Print
DIMENSIONS
19 x 14 in. (48.3 x 35.6 cm)
OBJECT NUMBER
PH.6576
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
Alabama, Birmingham, Black, Civil Rights, Entertainment, Festival, Holidays, June, Typography, United States
CREDIT LINE
Poster House Permanent Collection
KEYWORDS
Alabama, Birmingham, Black, Civil Rights, Entertainment, Festival, Holidays, June, Typography, United States

Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. is a contemporary letterpress printer. His work primarily focuses on documenting Black cultural events in the rural South, embracing the medium as the perfect means of unpretentious communication. This poster, advertising a festival in commemoration of Juneteenth, an annual celebration of African American freedom from slavery, includes the sponsoring organization’s logo repeated as a pressure print throughout the background.

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