Staple Crops

If you're in the DMV and you love hip-hop like I do... You need to see featuring Tahir Hemphill Staple Crops and Ebon Heath curated by Fahamu Pecou.

"Lyrics to Go" expands the conversation around hip hop through dynamic works that bring rap music beyond the audible. Rap lyrics are brought to life through typography, technology, sculpture, and more. In this way, the artists demonstrate the complex ways hip hop's language has transformed how we navigate the world.

On view through Oct 29 at in Rockville MD

LYRICS TO GO: Curated by VisArts' 2023 Mentoring Curator Dr. Fahamu Pecou | VisArts Curator’s Statement In acknowledgment of the 50th Anniversary of Hip-Hop, I’m thrilled to present LYRICS TO GO. This two-person exhibit locates the influence of hip hop poetics, writing, and literature in contemporary art practices as both conceptual and literal points of departure.

Hiphop and the Machine

Hip Hop and the Machine Rap Research Lab continues what hip hop has been doing for the past half century: playfully rearranging the words, sounds, and textures of postwar American pop music.

Staple Crops Update: Winter 2019 – Archiving the Subjective

Staple Crops Update: Winter 2019 – Archiving the Subjective As we approach the end of 2018, there is much for which to be thankful. I can’t believe it's been 1 year since I was selected to be the Harisios Papamarkou Chair in Education at the John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress. For these past 12 months my daily operation has been to become intimate w...