Curator Kellie Jones and her father—renowned poet, playwright, and activist Amiri Baraka—discuss their collaboration on Jones’s book EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art, which investigates various perspectives on art making throughout different generations. Jones is a professor of Art History and Archaeology and African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University. In 2016 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. Baraka is the author of more than 40 books of essays, poems, drama, and music history and criticism. The former Poet Laureate of New Jersey, he has received numerous honors including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment of the Arts, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and an Obie Award for his play Dutchman (1963).

In conjunction with the exhibition Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960–1980 at the Hammer Museum, curated by Kellie Jones.