Michael Ray Charles Exhibition Catalogue

Discipline: Book design
Format: Book cover
Design firm: Rigsby Design
Art director: Lana Rigsby
Jacket designers: Lana Rigsby, Amy Wolpert
Illustrator: Michael Ray Charles
Author: Marilyn Kern-Foxworth
Typeface: Stamp Gothic
Printer: H. MacDonald Printing
Paper: Simpson Starwhite Vicksburg

The cover of this exhibition catalogue is a revealing cultural self-portrait by black artist Michael Ray Charles. A circus poster for the fictitious Liberty Bros. Permanent Daily Circus introduces a series of works that use inflammatory racial and sexual stereotypes as tools for exploring cultural identity.