Elizabeth Catlett 1915

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Elizabeth Catlett(1915- )
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Elizabeth Catlett
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About Elizabeth Catlett

• Elizabeth Catlett was born in Washington D.C. and
  is the youngest of three children.
• Both of her parents were teachers and her
  grandparents had been slaves.
• She went to Howard University where she studied
  design, printmaking and drawing.
• She was a high school teacher in North Carolina,
  but left after two years because she was angry
  about the low teaching salaries for black people.

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About Elizabeth Catlett

• In 1940 she became the first black student to
  receive a Masters in Fine Arts (MFA ) in
  sculpture at the University of Iowa.
• Her teacher Grant Wood urged her to work with
  subjects she knew. For Catlett, that meant black
  people and especially black women.
• She studied ceramics at the Art Institute of
  Chicago in 1941.
• In 1946 she received a fellowship that allowed
  her to travel to Mexico to study woodcarving.

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About Elizabeth Catlett

• She met and married the Mexican artist Francisco
  Mora and made Mexico her permanent home.
• She taught at the National University of Mexico
  and has lived in Mexico since her retirement in
  1965.

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The Sharecropper
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Children with Flowers
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Negro Es Bello
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Mother and Child
Sculptures
Homage to My Black Sisters
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• What Should We Remember
• About Elizabeth Catlett?
• She was both a printmaker and a sculptor
• Her work showed the power of black people
• Other works used mother and child themes
• She moved to Mexico and lives there today