A Brand New Passport.

The Extraordinary Life of Elizabeth Catlett, MFA.

“No other field is closed to those who are not white and male as is the visual arts. After I decided to be an artist, the first thing I had to believe was that I, a black woman, could penetrate the art scene, and that, further, I could do so without sacrificing one iota of my blackness or my femaleness or my humanity.”

— Elizabeth Catlett, 1973

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