Elizabeth Catlett (1915–2012) - In-Person Lecture

A Black woman artist of the twentieth century is finally receiving long overdue attention in a traveling exhibition of over 200 works at The Brooklyn Museum, The Art Institute of Chicago, and The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies, features the art of a revolutionary artist, radical activist, devout feminist, and lifelong social justice advocate who worked in the mediums of sculpture, painting and printmaking. Born in Washington, DC, Catlett witnessed class inequality, racial violence, and U.S. imperialism firsthand, while pursuing an artistic education and career informed by European modernism.  Catlett experienced the Great Depression, the Jim Crow era, Black American migration from the South, The Harlem Renaissance, and WWII before she settled permanently in Mexico in 1946 where she worked as an advocate for the experiences of Black and Mexican women united in the fight against poverty, racism, and imperialism.  Professor Thomas Germano will present this visual lecture.