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In the fall of 1979, printmaker and burgeoning scholar Richard J. Powell curated for New York’s Studio Museum in Harlem a survey exhibition of prints by African Americans. Spanning almost two centuries and tracking the various modes of image making and creative communication by way of the art of printmaking, Impressions/Expressions: Black American Graphics featured artworks by an array of African American artists and printmakers, including Henry Ossawa Tanner, Elizabeth Catlett, Robert Blackburn, Margo Humphrey, and many of the etchers, lithographers, and linocut artists affiliated with Cleveland’s legendary Karamu House. In conjunction with the Cleveland Museum of Art’s exhibition Karamu Artists Inc.: Printmaking, Race, and Community, Powell—now a professor at Duke University and a recognized authority on African American art and culture—revisits his history-making exhibition, highlighting some of the artists and prints featured in that show, as well as updating his original Impressions/Expressions checklist with more recent graphics and multiples by such contemporary figures as Nina Chanel Abney, Glenn Ligon, Kerry James Marshall, Alison Saar, William Villalongo, and Kara Walker.
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11150 East Blvd, Cleveland, OH, United States, Ohio 44106
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