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Posters From the Black Belt:
Works by Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.

September 20 – October 5, 2008

Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. is an internationally recognized printing press artist, though he would rather be referred to as a "humble negro printer." This self-proclaimed "humble (sometimes lowly) negro printer," who tossed aside his corporate 9-to-5 job at AT&T with its steady income, chooses to live in extremely rural Alabama and goes wherever his art takes him. Kennedy found his calling making chipboard posters he sells inexpensively, so anyone and everyone can afford his art. His posters are socially, politically, and racially charged: with quotes from Sojourner Truth, Rosa Parks, and phrases like "coffee makes you black."