Exhibition Closing Reception: Our Flesh of Flames by Theodore Harris and Amiri Baraka
Art Department at Parkway Central Library
Join us for a closing reception with the artist on Thursday, January 30th, starting at 5:30pm. The exhibition of artwork by Philadelphia-based artist Theodore Harris contionues to be on display in the hallway galleries of the Art & Literature departments through the end of January 2025 and features collage work and other materials related to his book, Our Flesh of Flames: Collages by Theodore A. Harris and Captions by Amiri Baraka, along with other artwork created by the artist for numerous other publications. Both hallway galleries are located on Parkway Central Library's second floor.
On November 23rd, the library hosted the artist for 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 was followed by a conversation between Harris and Taji Ra’oof Nahl / TR7 and a recording of the event can now be viewed here.
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).
Art Department
Room 208
215-686-5403
Parkway Central Library
1901 Vine Street (between 19th and 20th Streets on the Parkway)
Philadelphia, PA 19103
1-833-TALK FLP (825-5357)