**PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A VIRTUAL PROGRAM THAT WILL TAKE PLACE VIA ZOOM. Registrants will receive a link to access the Zoom Webinar via email.**

Author Dr. Earnestine Jenkins will deliver a presentation based on her new book, Black Artists in America: From the Great Depression to Civil Rights, in this ZOOM webinar. She will share images from her book to narrate a visual journey, that explores the artists, discussing how they expressed and documented the social issues and the black experience in their time.

About The Book: This timely book surveys the varied ways in which Black American artists responded to the political, social, and economic climate of the United States from the time of the Great Depression through the landmark Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision. Featuring paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by artists including Jacob Lawrence, Horace Pippin, Augusta Savage, Charles White, Elizabeth Catlett, Norman Lewis, Walter Augustus Simon, Loïs Mailou Jones, and more, the book recognizes the contributions Black artists made to Social Realism and abstraction as they debated the role of art in society and community. Black artists played a vital part in midcentury art movements, and the inclusive policies of government programs like the Works Progress Administration brought more of these artists into mainstream circles.

About The Author: Dr. Earnestine Lovelle Jenkins is an Art History Professor at the University of Memphis, where her scholarship focuses on the visual cultural history of the African Diaspora. Dr. Jenkins was named among the top five Black women to know in the art world by Forbes Magazine (October 2020). She is a scholar of art history and visual studies and a curious researcher who enjoys finding stories that have not been told. 

Register directly on Zoom HERE. Presented in collaboration with the Cary Memorial Library in Lexington.

NOTE: This program will be recorded. All registrants will receive the recording via email within 24 hours of the program.