Elizabeth Catlett
The granddaughter of slaves, Elizabeth Catlett was born into a middle-class Washington, D.C. family on April 15, 1915.
She attended Howard University, and was the first to earn a Master of Fine Arts degree in sculpture from the University
of Iowa. Her sculptures and prints celebrate not only famous African Americans like Harriet Tubman and Malcolm X,
butalso anonymous workers, as in "Negro Woman," "Sharecropper" and "Survivor." Catlett died on April 2, 2012, at the age of 96, in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
She attended Howard University, and was the first to earn a Master of Fine Arts degree in sculpture from the University
of Iowa. Her sculptures and prints celebrate not only famous African Americans like Harriet Tubman and Malcolm X,
butalso anonymous workers, as in "Negro Woman," "Sharecropper" and "Survivor." Catlett died on April 2, 2012, at the age of 96, in Cuernavaca, Mexico.