[AC] Mead Art Museum at Amherst College; [HC] Hampshire College Art Gallery;
[HD] Historic Deerfield; [MH] Mount Holyoke College Art Museum; [MH SK] The Joseph Allen Skinner Museum at Mount Holyoke College; [SC] Smith College Museum of Art; [UM] University Museum of Contemporary Art at UMASS Amherst

Description:
Bound book with pages of black paper and no text.

Label Text:
Exhibition Label, 40 Years / 40 Artists, January 22–March 8, 2015:
Of particular inspiration to Fernandes is W.E.B. Du Bois’ life-long but unfulfilled dream to create The Encyclopedia Africana, extolling the past and present greatness of Africans and African-Americans. Fernandes has created a symbolic version of the book. - Loretta Yarlow

Tags:
conceptual art; literature; race; African American

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