Elizabeth Catlettâthe artist who was seen as a threat to the USâgets her due with touring show
In addition to giving a wider and more nuanced view of the overlapping political forces that informed Catlettâs life and careerâfrom the civil rights movement in the US to the nascent sense of Black Mexican identity taking root in her adoptive countryâthe curators hope to recast a dichotomy that has been used to structure exhibitions and texts about her work: the contrast between her decades-long printmaking practice and her commissions for public monuments in the 1980s.
