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Awesome Black Creativity (A Celebration of Black Cultural Icons in LEGO® Bricks)
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Product Details
Author:
Richard Dryden, Dave Kaleta
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
176
Publisher:
No Starch Press (January 12, 2027)
Imprint:
No Starch Press
Release Date:
January 12, 2027
Language:
English
Audience:
General/trade
ISBN-13:
9781718504943
ISBN-10:
1718504942
Weight:
13oz
Dimensions:
9" x 9"
File:
RandomHouse-PRH_Book_Company_PRH_PRT_Onix_delta_active_D20261111T024012_158509385-20261111.xml
Folder:
RandomHouse
List Price:
$24.99
Country of Origin:
United States
Pub Discount:
65
Case Pack:
18
As low as:
$19.24
Publisher Identifier:
P-RH
Discount Code:
A
QuickShip:
Yes
Overview
Twenty-seven LEGO portraits and original biographical essays celebrate the Black creatives, activists, and athletes who shaped our culture. Richard Dryden and Dave Kaleta pair expressive brick-built artwork with compelling life stories, inviting readers to see familiar icons in a brand new way.
The sweep of a dancer’s arms, a musician’s magnetic stage presence, an athlete’s sacrifice. Richard Dryden and Dave Kaleta capture what makes Black cultural icons unforgettable using LEGO bricks in this “imaginative labor of love” (Kirkus Reviews).
Awesome Black Creativity pairs twenty-seven LEGO portraits with original biographical essays celebrating the creatives, activists, and athletes who shaped our culture. Meet Alvin Ailey, bell hooks, DJ Kool Herc, Kehinde Wiley, Toni Morrison, Marsha P. Johnson, the Williams sisters, and more through artwork and stories that invite you to see familiar figures in a brand new way.
Kaleta’s signature Miniland Plus building style depicts each subject through posture, clothing, and carefully chosen details. None of the figures have faces. That’s intentional: each build invites readers to see something of themselves in the people these portraits honor. Dryden’s biographical essays bring the figures’ lives and achievements into focus, drawing on his years covering Black music, art, and culture for Complex, The FADER, and other publications.
Dryden and Kaleta met in 2020 and competed together on Season 2 of Fox’s LEGO Masters the following year. Awesome Black Creativity began as a 26-week Instagram series, and the collection won the 2022 Best Artwork award at Brickworld Chicago. Years later, it toured as an exhibit at libraries and museums, earning recognition from the Estate of Nina Simone and the attention of Questlove along the way.
For LEGO fans, art lovers, and anyone interested in Black cultural history, this full-color collection asks what it means to really see someone. The details in each build reward a closer look, and may give you a fresh appreciation for the achievements that made these figures worth building.
LEGO is a trademark of the LEGO Group of companies, which does not sponsor, authorize, or endorse this book.
The sweep of a dancer’s arms, a musician’s magnetic stage presence, an athlete’s sacrifice. Richard Dryden and Dave Kaleta capture what makes Black cultural icons unforgettable using LEGO bricks in this “imaginative labor of love” (Kirkus Reviews).
Awesome Black Creativity pairs twenty-seven LEGO portraits with original biographical essays celebrating the creatives, activists, and athletes who shaped our culture. Meet Alvin Ailey, bell hooks, DJ Kool Herc, Kehinde Wiley, Toni Morrison, Marsha P. Johnson, the Williams sisters, and more through artwork and stories that invite you to see familiar figures in a brand new way.
Kaleta’s signature Miniland Plus building style depicts each subject through posture, clothing, and carefully chosen details. None of the figures have faces. That’s intentional: each build invites readers to see something of themselves in the people these portraits honor. Dryden’s biographical essays bring the figures’ lives and achievements into focus, drawing on his years covering Black music, art, and culture for Complex, The FADER, and other publications.
Dryden and Kaleta met in 2020 and competed together on Season 2 of Fox’s LEGO Masters the following year. Awesome Black Creativity began as a 26-week Instagram series, and the collection won the 2022 Best Artwork award at Brickworld Chicago. Years later, it toured as an exhibit at libraries and museums, earning recognition from the Estate of Nina Simone and the attention of Questlove along the way.
For LEGO fans, art lovers, and anyone interested in Black cultural history, this full-color collection asks what it means to really see someone. The details in each build reward a closer look, and may give you a fresh appreciation for the achievements that made these figures worth building.
LEGO is a trademark of the LEGO Group of companies, which does not sponsor, authorize, or endorse this book.
