Najha Zigbi-Johnson has been studying the streets of Harlem for her entire life and now, after studying architecture at Columbia and Black culture at Harvard Divinity School, she sees the street in all its wondrous complexity: A gathering place, a political battleground, home.

Najha Zigbi-Johnson has been studying the streets of Harlem for her entire life and now, after studying architecture at Columbia and Black culture at Harvard Divinity School, she sees the street in all its wondrous complexity: A gathering place, a political battleground, home.

The Street

The Studio Museum's new building was designed using Harlem's landscape as an inspiration—The soaring interiors of the faith-based places, the stages for music, theater, and dance that are so integral to Harlem’s culture, the bustling life on 125th Street, and the stoops of Harlem’s brownstones, which are such a prominent transitional zone between the public and the private.

Harlem Inspired was produced by Sound Made Public with the Studio Museum in Harlem.

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The Studio Museum's new building was designed using Harlem's landscape as an inspiration—The soaring interiors of the faith-based places, the stages for music, theater, and dance that are so integral to Harlem’s culture, the bustling life on 125th Street, and the stoops of Harlem’s brownstones, which are such a prominent transitional zone between the public and the private. Harlem Inspired was produced by Sound Made Public with the Studio Museum in Harlem.

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The Street

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