Amanda Williams is an American visual artist who trained as an architect. Her practice uses color to foreground the complexities of race, place, and value in cities. Her works are in several collections including MoMA and the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a MacArthur Foundation fellowship.

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• I. Colors1. Whatchu Cain’t Do Black - Roxane Gay2. NYT Uppercase - J Wortham3. Stevie's Eyelids Black - Corrine Bailey Rae4. Andriana Fur Black - Rikki Byrd5. More Than One Black - Joshua Segun-Lean6. Praying Over Pork Chops Black - Eric Williams7. Break From Blackness Black - Zoe Samuzdi8. ATM Black - Emmanuel Massillon9. Dark Skin Weapon - Habiba Hopson10. Patent Black - Pablo Whaley11. Fourth of July is a Lie Black - Kara Jackson12. Hardheaded and Tenderheaded Black - Jamila Woods13. CP Time - rejected - Rohan Ayinde14. CP Time - embraced - Rohan Ayinde15. Candy Lady Black - Tomi Laja16. Blackness is not a color Black - Sena Amuzu17. I’m Not African American Black - Cornelius TullochII. Dialogues1. What Black is This You Say? Conversation between Amanda Williams and Cauleen Smith2. might/Black walls (the Blackness of blackness) - Andres Hernandez:On the histories, potentials and limitations of minimalism and color theory, and what it means to coat a building that occupies public space in ciphers of blackness3. Conversation between Justin Garett Moore, Mabel O. Wilson, and Amanda Williams4. Epilogue - Deana Haggag

Amanda Williams is an American visual artist who trained as an architect. Her practice uses color to foreground the complexities of race, place, and value in cities. Her works are in several collections including MoMA and the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a MacArthur Foundation fellowship.

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• I. Colors1. Whatchu Cain’t Do Black - Roxane Gay2. NYT Uppercase - J Wortham3. Stevie's Eyelids Black - Corrine Bailey Rae4. Andriana Fur Black - Rikki Byrd5. More Than One Black - Joshua Segun-Lean6. Praying Over Pork Chops Black - Eric Williams7. Break From Blackness Black - Zoe Samuzdi8. ATM Black - Emmanuel Massillon9. Dark Skin Weapon - Habiba Hopson10. Patent Black - Pablo Whaley11. Fourth of July is a Lie Black - Kara Jackson12. Hardheaded and Tenderheaded Black - Jamila Woods13. CP Time - rejected - Rohan Ayinde14. CP Time - embraced - Rohan Ayinde15. Candy Lady Black - Tomi Laja16. Blackness is not a color Black - Sena Amuzu17. I’m Not African American Black - Cornelius TullochII. Dialogues1. What Black is This You Say? Conversation between Amanda Williams and Cauleen Smith2. might/Black walls (the Blackness of blackness) - Andres Hernandez:On the histories, potentials and limitations of minimalism and color theory, and what it means to coat a building that occupies public space in ciphers of blackness3. Conversation between Justin Garett Moore, Mabel O. Wilson, and Amanda Williams4. Epilogue - Deana Haggag

Amanda Williams is an American visual artist who trained as an architect. Her practice uses color to foreground the complexities of race, place, and value in cities. Her works are in several collections including MoMA and the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a MacArthur Foundation fellowship.

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• I. Colors1. Whatchu Cain’t Do Black - Roxane Gay2. NYT Uppercase - J Wortham3. Stevie's Eyelids Black - Corrine Bailey Rae4. Andriana Fur Black - Rikki Byrd5. More Than One Black - Joshua Segun-Lean6. Praying Over Pork Chops Black - Eric Williams7. Break From Blackness Black - Zoe Samuzdi8. ATM Black - Emmanuel Massillon9. Dark Skin Weapon - Habiba Hopson10. Patent Black - Pablo Whaley11. Fourth of July is a Lie Black - Kara Jackson12. Hardheaded and Tenderheaded Black - Jamila Woods13. CP Time - rejected - Rohan Ayinde14. CP Time - embraced - Rohan Ayinde15. Candy Lady Black - Tomi Laja16. Blackness is not a color Black - Sena Amuzu17. I’m Not African American Black - Cornelius TullochII. Dialogues1. What Black is This You Say? Conversation between Amanda Williams and Cauleen Smith2. might/Black walls (the Blackness of blackness) - Andres Hernandez:On the histories, potentials and limitations of minimalism and color theory, and what it means to coat a building that occupies public space in ciphers of blackness3. Conversation between Justin Garett Moore, Mabel O. Wilson, and Amanda Williams4. Epilogue - Deana Haggag