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Acrobats is one of the prints produced during the course of Saar’s graduate studies at California State Long Beach, where she specialized in printmaking. Here we see an acrobatic troupe of undistinguished figures posed in a daring act of physical…

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,…

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…

This lithograph, printed in collaboration between Ringgold and her longtime artist assistant Grace Matthews, relies on the legend of African people escaping enslavement by flying over the Atlantic Ocean --a persistent example of folklore passed down…

Bookmarks in the Pages of Life is a collection of illustrations Saar made to accompany short stories by Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960), a prolific author whose profoundly impactful works, such as Their Eyes Were Watching God (published in 1937),…