For Elizabeth Catlett, it was never art for art’s sake. From her 1930s graduate studies at the University of Iowa under regionalist Grant Wood to the two final exhibitions of her lifetime in 2011, ...

Elizabeth Catlett once told an interviewer that one of the biggest public misconceptions about her is that she’s a great artist. She was “just lucky,” she said, to come “at a time when it’s ...

In 1971, during her United States exile and the height of the Black Power Movement, Elizabeth Catlett once said, “Art for me must develop from a necessity within my people. It must answer a question, ...

“Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist,” the largest ever presentation of her work in America, can be seen now through July 6, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Elizabeth Catlett, 'There is A Woman ...

Elizabeth Catlett (1915–2012) was a revolutionary printmaker, sculptor, and painter with a body of work spanning six-plus decades. This fall, the Art Institute of Chicago presents a long-overdue ...

Elizabeth Catlett is a longstanding icon in the University of Iowa’s history. Born back in 1915, she enrolled at the UI as a graduate student and became the first Black woman to receive an MFA from ...

“Elizabeth Catlett: ‘A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies,’” a remarkably bracing new exhibit stuffed with politics and activism and fascism and standing up for everyday laborers and ...

WATERBURY — “The Art of Elizabeth Catlett” is meant to make you squirm. Draw back. Recoil. Flinch. “This is explicitly political art,” said Becca Lo Presti, assistant curator of the Mattatuck Museum, ...

On America’s Next Top Model, contestants were ridiculed for having large noses or being full-figured, a completely different ...

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