This catalog is published on the occasion of the exhibition:Enunciated Life

The California African American Museum –March 27, 2021- August 15, 2021

Curated by Taylor Renee Aldridge

Enunciated Lifeand its epilogueInspirited: Coda,utilize Black spiritual beliefs as a point of departure for considering modes of surrender, looking at the movements, sounds, and corporeal expressions that have generated lexicons of communication within and beyond Black church sites.

The exhibitions title is derived from the scholarship of Ashon T. Crawley, who recognizes the beauty and power of breathing within Black Pentecostalism to enunciate life, life that is exorbitant, capacious, and fundamentally social, though it is also life that is structured through and engulfed by brutal violence.[1] Enunciated life, in other words, alerts us to the audaciousness of Black breath that endures in the wake of continued anti-Blackness.

Taylor Renee Aldridgeisthe visual arts curator and program manager at the California African American Museum (CAAM). Prior, she workedas awriter andindependent curatorin Detroit, Michigan. In 2015, along with art critic Jessica Lynne, she co-foundedARTS.BLACK, a journal of art criticism forBlack perspectives.She has earned aM.L.A from Harvard University with a concentration in Museum Studies and B.A from Howard University with a concentration in Art History.

• Paperback
• 6 x 9 in.
• $15.00
• 140 pages
• March 2022
• ISBN: 9780578957753

• Library of CongressControl Number: 2021922926

• Editor:Taylor Renee Aldridge
• Copy Editing & Editorial Assistance: Charlie M. Tatum (@ctatum)
• Designer: ELLA Press (@ellalosangeles)
• Printed by KOPA (@kopaprinting)
• All exhibition photography by Elon Schoenholz (@elonschoenholz)
• Contributions by Ashon T. Crawley (@ashoncrawley ), Joe Tolbert Jr. (@_joet), Cameron Shaw, and Taylor Renee Aldridge.