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From his jail cell in Birmingham, Alabama in April 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote an open letter to eight white clergymen who had criticized King’s “unwise and untimely” demonstrations of civil disobedience. Richly illustrated by Ringgold in…

In the early 1970s, Ringgold produced several posters using cut-and-pasted paper in red, green, and black --that is, the colors of the Pan-African flag. Two of these posters were intended to be reproduced and sold in support of the Committee to…

Ringgold’s narrative screen-print, or serigraph, centers on the life of the celebrated African-American painter, Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937). While the text surrounding the central image provides a straight-forward account of a moment in Tanner’s…

Betye’s printmaking studio was located in a dedicated room in her Laurel Canyon home during her daughters’ youth, but the acids and machinery involved in intaglio printmaking meant the studio was generally off-limits to the young children. However,…

This serigraph is printed from a photograph of Saar’s 1994 mixed media assemblage of the same name, part of the Personal Icons series which combines found objects to investigate the mystical and the historical past. Pictured in a reliquary-like…

This double-sided work exemplifies both Saar’s assemblage practice and her interest in the mystical. Her title references Hoodoo, a syncretic belief system (synthesis of varying religions) practiced by the African Diaspora in the southern U.S. On one…

From Saar’s 1997 series of washboard assemblages each entitled We Was Mostly ‘Bout Survival comes this lithograph reproduction included in the portfolio Freedom or Slavery: The Paul Robeson Portfolio, celebrating the multi-talented activist,…