Karamu Artists Inc. : Printmaking, Race and Community

Salsbury, Britany; Benay, Erin; Powell, Richard J. (CON); Francis, Jacqueline (CON); Holton, Curlee Raven (CON)

ISBN 10: 0300279175 / ISBN 13: 9780300279177

Editore: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2025

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Titolo: Karamu Artists Inc. : Printmaking, Race and ...

Casa editrice: The Cleveland Museum of Art

Data di pubblicazione: 2025

Legatura: Rilegato

Condizione: As New

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An exploration of the rich history of printmaking at Cleveland’s Karamu House, a center of Black arts, culture, and community since 1915
 
Karamu House, founded as a settlement house in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1915, is one of the preeminent homes of Black arts, culture, and community in America. Noted for its theater program, Karamu House also hosts a rich legacy in the graphic arts. Printmaking workshops open to artists and community alike launched in the 1930s, allowing a young Langston Hughes—as one notable example—to experiment with print.
 
Linked with printmaking’s ethos of accessibility and democracy, a group including Elmer W. Brown, Hughie Lee-Smith, Charles L. Salle´e Jr., and William E. Smith—some of the most prominent Black printmakers of the WPA era—founded Karamu Artists, Inc. Reproductions of works by such artists are accompanied by essays situating the prints, the artists, and this locus of Black arts and culture in the histories it shaped. These writings are complemented by an interview with printmaker and Karamu alumnus Curlee Raven Holton.
 
Distributed for the Cleveland Museum of Art
 
Exhibition Schedule:
 
Cleveland Museum of Art
(March 23–August 17, 2025)

Informazioni sull?autore:

Britany Salsbury is curator of prints and drawings at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Erin Benay is associate professor of art history and distinguished scholar in the public humanities at Case Western Reserve University.