Elizabeth Catlett

I'll read a few.

The Rising Star Cave and the hominins they found there, Maya decline and the Aztec water control, the artist Elizabeth Catlett, counterfactual history like what if the Nazis had won, and hysterical realism in modern novels.

I would expect only two to four of these thirty to show up.

Could be zero.

And, uh, you know, you can even look close to there, too.

There's another Elizabeth Catlett piece with a woman, a Black woman writing.

So there's a Black woman writing and a Black woman thinking in this book.

But yeah, I am very excited and also very grateful to Norton, my press, for letting me, and doing the beautiful reproduction, and it took spe- special paper, to be able to reproduce this art properly so that you could really see it, and it was very deliberate.

It's a two-foot tall sculpture made from one piece of wood.

It's called The Embrace by artist Elizabeth Catlett.

Her work's also in New York's Museum of Modern Art.

This piece depicts two people hugging, their faces and bodies fused together, their eyes looking at the viewer.

Her research includes African-American women's history, the cultural labor of African-Americans and women, and 20th century Black radicalism.

She has published work on cultural luminaries such as Hazel Scott, Prince, Elizabeth Catlett, and Beyonce.

She is the author of The Fiercest Kind, Five Black Women in Art, Performance, and Resistance, 1937-1965. which looks at the contributions and challenges of Black women activist artists in the mid-20th century.

Hello, everyone.

I think we think of her as an actress, but she was actually a cabaret singer.

That's how she made her money.

The fine artist is Elizabeth Catlett.

I mean, I could count Lena Horne also as an actress, obviously.

Many people are kind of confused about how it is that, you know, when we have a popular vote and, you know, who actually casts the vote, et cetera.

And then also we have an exhibit of Elizabeth Catlett's work, This exhibit is really a stunning look at Elizabeth Catlett, a noted African-American, really seminal African-American female artist.

There's sculptures, there's prints, and all kinds of various aspects of her work in the galleries.

And so just a myriad of different kinds of experiences for folks throughout the year.