Art Speaks: Prints and Murals by Black Artists in the WPA

Join Victoria McCraven, 2020-2021 Romare Bearden Graduate Museum Fellow, and Clare Kobasa, assistant curator of prints, drawings, and photographs and study room manager, as they discuss works in the Museum’s collection by Dox Thrash, Selma Day, Raymond Steth, and other Black artists. Their talk will address printmaking and mural practices developed during the 1930s and 1940s with funding from the Works Progress Administration and Dox Thrash’s invention of the carborundum mezzotint.

This virtual program will take place via Zoom and will include opportunities for participants to ask questions with the Q&A feature. Attendees’ mics and cameras will not be activated. This event will have automated closed captions through Zoom.

Attendees must register to receive the Zoom link. Capacity for the live program is limited.

A closed-captioned recording of the program will be available on the Museum’s YouTube channel in the weeks following.