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Karamu Artists Inc.: Printmaking, Race, and Community

October 3, 2024 · 12:00 PM ET · Online

Presented by Print Council of America

Title frame from the recording of “Karamu Artists Inc.: Printmaking, Race, and Community”

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Speakers

  • Mary Weaver Chapin — President, Print Council of America
  • Britany Salsbury — Curator of Prints and Drawings, Cleveland Museum of Art

This webinar offers a preview of the Cleveland Museum of Art’s upcoming exhibition and publication Karamu Artists Inc.: Printmaking, Race, and Community (March 23-August 17, 2025). The project is the first to explore the graphic arts workshop housed during the 1930s and 40s at Karamu House—one of the nation’s best-known Black American cultural centers, where Langston Hughes got his start and some of the most recognized Black printmakers of the WPA era established their reputations.

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