Birth of the BluesBirth of the Blues, 2025 Woodcut Edition of 15 50 x 70 in. Collaborative Printer: Alexis Nutini Birth of the Blues returns to one of the most charged images in Willie Cole's practice of the last known ship to bring enslaved Africans to the United States, the Clotilda. Cole had acquired a high resolution image through the Getty and began working with it first as a sculpture, then as a print. The sculpture was part of a 2022 exhibition at Alexander and

the systematic genocidal murder of six million European Jews—two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population—by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1941 and 1945

I had given a lecture on "African American Art and Artists" at the African Studies Center of the University of Ibadan

While I have a great deal of experience in intaglio printing

the subject matter often depicts African American themes

developing handmade negatives and exploring experimental photographic techniques

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Sylvia Snowden has created vibrantly abstract works

political expediency and market forces

Factory VII pushed that practice further