June Jordan, The Poetry of Design

June Jordan, The Poetry of DesignSoftcover, 143 pages, fully illustrated. In 1964, poet June Jordan collaborated with architect and visionary R. Buckminster Fuller on an urban design for Harlem. This study takes their partnership as a springboard to explore Jordans little known contributions to environmental design during a time of great architectural foment, published in concert with a spring 2023 exhibition at the American Academy in Rome of the same name. The four scholarly essays

and hand-dyed textiles

This exhibition

The fifty recipes draw from the four traditional categories of Italian soups: those made with water (aqua cotta)

(Books are new and shrink-wrapped

Andrew Heiskell Arts Director at the American Academy in Rome

and Alice Neel

Robert Storr

The Dye Garden features recent work by Yto Barrada (2018 Resident)

who studied painting and the nude at the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Venice

The four scholarly essays examine how Jordan's literature

curator and former Andrew Heiskell Arts Director at the American Academy in Rome

Peter Benson Miller