
07/12/2025
Throughout her long career as a sculptor, painter, and printmaker, Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012) celebrated and memorialized Black people—especially Black women. Catlett’s tenacious vision and work ethic helped to shape the aesthetics of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Michele L. Simms-Burton, a former professor of African American studies, joins us August 7 to examine why Catlett was among the most formidable artists of the 20th century.
Register: https://s.si.edu/ElizabethCatlett
Image: Elizabeth Catlett’s 12-color lithograph, “Children with Flowers” (1995) is part of Smithsonian Associates’ Art Collector’s Program collection.