Shirley Jackson Whitaker: An Artist’s Reflection on African-American Life, Culture, and Trials

Shirley Jackson Whitaker: An Artist’s Reflection on African-American Life, Culture, and Trials

Shirley Jackson Whitaker: An Artist’s Reflection on African-American Life, Culture, and Trials offers prints, sketches, paintings, and books that envision Black history as American history with power, joy, and grief. Highlighting this show of mostly recent work is Dr. Whitaker’s Ashes to Ashes, her 2018 artist’s book commemorating victims of lynching, completed in collaboration with the late Winfred Rembert.