“An Evening with Dr. Margaret Burroughs & Edmund Barry Gaither”
Join Edmund Barry Gaither, Director and Curator of the Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists (NCAAA) and the iconic and legendary Dr. Margaret T. Burroughs, artist/activist and Founder of the DuSable Museum of African American History and they discuss and examine the interplay between African American and American Social Art.
As the first 20th century generation of African American social artists sought to create a new identity for Black Americans as people heroically confronting racism and socio-economic injustice, it drew from the visual vocabulary of the Mexican masters to express militancy, fight victimization and criticize the American political and social practices of “Jim Crow” and discrimination. The African American artists increasingly incorporated influences from Mexico, while also especially favoring prints and murals as vehicles for expression.
Dr. Margaret Burroughs was a witness to and participant in these developments, and will offer an intimate, first hand report on the Mexican-African-American encounter.