An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children

“In collaborating with the fiercely imaginative visual artist Kara Walker, Kincaid has transposed this mode of thinking into an amalgam of erudition, discourse, storytelling and picture book art. A simple child’s garden of ABCs their ‘encyclopedia’ is not. Kincaid’s adult base, too, will gravitate toward it … Cunning and often anthropomorphic, the alphabet book’s imagery interpolates child-driven versions of [Walker’s] acidly sardonic shadow art with soft-edged, watercolor-drenched vignettes that play hide-and-seek with the letters they’re called on to represent … Kincaid and Walker are unafraid to spin the world differently and make it matter in new ways.”–Celia McGee, The New York Times Book Review

Jamaica Kincaid was born in St. John’s, Antigua. Her books include At the Bottom of the River; Annie John; Lucy; The Autobiography of My Mother; My Brother; Mr. Potter; and See Now Then. She teaches at Harvard University and lives in Vermont.

Kara Walker is best known for her candid investigation of race, gender, sexuality, and violence through silhouetted figures. She was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1997 and an Eileen Harris Norton Fellowship in 2008. She has been the Tepper Chair in Visual Arts at Rutgers University since 2015. Her work can be found in museums throughout the world, including the Guggenheim, MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Tate Gallery. She lives in New York.

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