[Printmaker Elizabeth Catlett retrospective exhibit full video]

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Video footage from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during printmaker Elizabeth Catletts' retrospective exhibit titled "Fifty Years of Printmaking". The footage shows an interrupted close-up of the gallery wall followed by individual close-ups of prints. The footage pertaining to the exhibit cuts to bars at the 7:04 mark.

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1 videocassette (Umatic) (10 min., 15 sec.) : sd., col. ; 3/4 in.

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Video footage from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during printmaker Elizabeth Catletts' retrospective exhibit titled "Fifty Years of Printmaking". The footage shows an interrupted close-up of the gallery wall followed by individual close-ups of prints. The footage pertaining to the exhibit cuts to bars at the 7:04 mark.

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1 videocassette (Umatic) (10 min., 15 sec.) : sd., col. ; 3/4 in.

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Elizabeth Catlett (1915–2012) achieved international fame for her powerful explorations of race, class, and her own African American female identity through printmaking and sculpture. Catlett's work speaks to her training in printmakings power to politically challenge society and its corruption. Catlett graduated from Howard University and then with her MFA from the University of Iowa in the 1940s. She then went on to accept a fellowship in Mexico where she continued her printmaking career. The prints shown in this video of the black women laborers were done in her time in Mexico as part of the series titled "The Negro Woman" (1947-48). The most recognized of the series is found in this video as the second print shown and is entitled "I Have Always Worked Hard in America".

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  • Preferred Citation: The Black Academy of Arts and Letters Records (AR0797), University of North Texas Special Collections

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[Printmaker Elizabeth Catlett retrospective exhibit full video], video, [1990-06..1990-08]; Dallas, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1921264/: accessed June 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.

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