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

Victoria McCraven, the 2020-2021 Romare Bearden Graduate Museum Fellow, and Clare Kobasa, the assistant curator of prints, drawings, and photographs and study room manager, discussed works in the Museum’s collection by Dox Thrash, Selma Day, Raymond Steth, and other Black artists. Their talk addressed 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.