Shirley Jackson Whitaker (American)

Dr. Shirley Jackson Whitaker is a nephrologist as well as an artist who works in paint, printmaking, and book arts, emphasizing African American history as American history. The exhibition features her work Ashes to Ashes: A Homegoing Celebration for the Unburied (2018), a book of etchings that arose out of the first funeral ever given for victims of lynching. The funeral involved collaboration with community and additionally resulted in the video, Ashes to Ashes.

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