What Black Is This You Say?

An illustrated anthology of texts on artist Amanda Williams, edited in collaboration with Camille Bacon. What Black Is This You Say?, by Amanda Williams, convenes a broad set of contributors to respond to her own eponymous public artwork at Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York City (2021 2023).In this collection, the 17 colors and captions that appeared on the facade of Storefront the project began as a series of Instagram posts of different hues of black, paired with witty and incisive comments on the multiplicity of Black culture are expounded upon in poems, essays, and prose.With this anthology, Williams deliberately departs from traditional art criticism by gathering an intimate ensemble of her peers, friends, and collaborators, including Roxane Gay, Corinne Bailey Rae, and J Wortham, to comment on her work. What Black Is This You Say? is the first title in a new series titled Groundworks, produced in conjunction with Storefront for Art and Architecture.Storefront, found