Join us for an opening reception with the artist. The exhibition of artwork by Philadelphia-based artist Theodore Harris will be on display in the hallway galleries of the Art & Literature departments through the end of January 2025.

This exhibit is taking place in conjunction with a reading from the new and expanded edition of his book, Our Flesh of Flames: Collages by Theodore A. Harris and Captions by Amiri Baraka. (2024). The reading will be followed by a conversation between Harris and Taji Ra’oof Nahl / TR7 and will take place in the Parkway Central Library's Montgomery Auditorium on Saturday, November 23rd, 2-4:30pm. 

Collage work and other materials related to Our Flesh of Flames will be on display in the Art Department hallway gallery and other artwork created by the artist for numerous other publications will be in the Literature Department hallway gallery. Both are located on Parkway Central Library's second floor.

Theodore A. Harris (1966-) is a Philadelphia-based visual artist and poet. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is in private and public collections such as Fort Garland Museum and Cultural Center, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Saint Louis University Museum of Art, La Salle University Art Museum, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, McGill University Visual Arts Collection, Center for Africana Studies; University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center Rare Books and Manuscript Library; University of Pennsylvania, and the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art, and the Winston and Carolyn Lowe Collection. Harris is the co-founder of the Anti-Graffiti Network/Philadelphia Mural Arts Program.

Harris has also co-authored and authored books including Our Flesh of Flames:Collages by Theodore A. Harris and Captions by Amiri Baraka (2024), Malcolm X as Ideology (2008) with Amiri Baraka, TRIPTYCH with Amiri Baraka and Jack Hirschman (2011), i ran from it and was still in it with Fred Moten (2007), and Thesentür: Conscientious Objector to Formalism (2017). He is the Founding Artistic Director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Black Aesthetics. He is a 2022 Visual Artist Fellow CFEVA (Center For Emerging Visual Artists).