05/20/2026
Artist William Villalongo and urbanist Shraddha Ramani’s expansive, collaborative research-based print portfolio, “Printing Black America: Du Bois’s Data Portraits in the 21st Century,” which was on view in Data Consciousness, is now on view at the Brooklyn Public Library through May 31!
The duo reinterpret and respond to the data visualizations innovated by luminary activist and educator W.E.B. Du Bois— what he called “data portraits”— that debuted among a collection of materials at the 1900 Paris World’s Fair in “The American Negro Exhibition” (ANE). One hundred and twenty-five years later, Ramani and Villalongo expand on Du Bois’s methodologies of data collection and visual storytelling, centering “living projects” in local communities across the country to consider new possibilities for Black life today and to probe at the meaning of these historical works when held up against our contemporary moment.
Learn more about this exhibition at the link here: https://bit.ly/4nzDaP9
and , Occupations of Black Americans, 1900–2021, 2025. Screenprint and digital pigment print collage. 28 x 22 in. Published by Island Press, St. Louis. © Villalongo Studio, Shraddha Ramani, and Island Press, St. Louis.
