Njideka Akunyili Crosby In Conversation with The Brooklyn Rail

A detail from a posted by Njideka Akunyili Crosby, titled Blend in — Stand out, dated 2019.

Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Blend in - Stand out, 2019

June 11, 2020

The Brooklyn Rail hosted Njideka Akunyili Crosby in conversation with the publication’s Editor-at-Large, Jason Rosenfeld, on Thursday, June 11, on ZOOM.

To watch a video of the conversation, which centered around “The New Social Environment” and concluded with a poetry reading by Ed Steck, please click here.

The above image is Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s Blend in — Stand out (2019), as featured in 2020Solidarity poster series, a Between Bridges project aimed at helping cultural and music venues, community projects, independent spaces and publications that are existentially threatened by the current crisis. The project features over fifty international artists come together to design one poster each, which can be offered on different crowdfunding sites as a reward for donations.

A photo of Njideka Akunyili Crosby in her studio, dated 2017. Photo by Stefan Ruiz.

For more information on the Between Bridges 2020Solidarity project and where to buy this and other posters