Visual Artist | African American Sculptress
Elizabeth Catlett, Said…
“No other field is closed to those who are not white and male as is the visual arts. After I decided to be an artist, the first thing I had to believe was that I, a black woman, could penetrate the art scene, and that, further, I could do so without sacrificing one iota of my blackness or my femaleness or my humanity.”
About The Artist: Elizabeth Catlett was a sculptor and graphic artist. She studied at Howard University in D.C., the Art Institute in Chicago, ‘La Esmeralda’ in Mexico City, and the Taller de Gráfica Popular, where she would later lead and teach sculpture workshops. Her works centralized Black women’s experiences, as well as economic and racial inequalities as she saw them in the United States and in México.
Credit: Photo: Elizabeth Catlett, 1948. Source: HuffPost.
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