Derrick Adams: Sanctuary

Derrick Adams: Sanctuary was inspired by The Negro Motorist Green Book, an annual guidebook for Black American road-trippers published by Victor Hugo Green during the Jim Crow era in America.

Derrick Adams: Sanctuary is an exhibition of large-scale sculpture, and mixed-media collage and assemblage on wood panels that reimagines safe destinations for the Black American traveler during the mid-twentieth century.

The body of work was inspired by The Negro Motorist Green Book, an annual guidebook for Black American road-trippers published by New York mailman Victor Hugo Green from 1936 to 1966, during the Jim Crow era in America.