Hampton University News January 6, 2015 HU Museum presents Elizabeth Catlett: A Celebration of 100 Years, Elizabeth Catlett and The Hampton Art Tradition The Hampton University Museum presents Elizabeth Catlett: A Celebration of 100 Years and Elizabeth Catlett and The Hampton Art Tradition in the Main Changing Gallery and Blue Room Jan. 30- Nov. 14. The opening reception will be held Jan. 30 at 5:30 p.m. Elizabeth Catlett: A Celebration of 100 Years is a commemoration of Catlett's 100th birthday. The exhibition is pulled from Catlett's 125-plus works in the HU Museum's collection. This exhibition will feature approximately 49 works on paper with 24 prints never shown at the HU Museum. The works represented in this exhibition show the importance of Catlett as a major contemporary international artist. The works represented in this exhibition show the importance of Catlett as a major contemporary international artist in addition to her ability to show the humanistic side of her subjects: pain, joy, struggles and triumphs. It does not matter if you are looking at Catlett's print of an African American Sharecropper or her Indian Woman, Catlett's ability to capture the essence of her subject is demonstrated through her technical brilliancy. In addition, Elizabeth Catlett and the Hampton Art Tradition will be shown highlighting students who were at Hampton in 1943 when husband and wife team Charles White and Elizabeth Catlett came to then Hampton Institute and taught classes. It was at this time White created The Contribution of the Negro To Democracy in America. Works by Charles White, John Biggers, Samella Sanders Lewis, Persis Jennings and Annabelle Baker will be on view. The opening reception and the exhibitions are sponsored in part by Hampton Alumnae Chapter, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. The reception is free and open to the public, please RSVP by Jan. 27 by calling 757-727-5308. SANDRA M. PHOENIX Executive Director HBCU Library Alliance sphoenix@hbculibraries.org<mailto:sphoenix@hbculibraries.org> www.hbculibraries.org<http://www.hbculibraries.org/> 800-999-8558, ext. 4820 404-702-5854 Skype: sandra.phoenix1 1438 West Peachtree NW Suite 200 Atlanta,GA 30309 Toll Free: 1.800.999.8558 (LYRASIS) Fax: 404.892.7879 www.lyrasis.org<http://www.lyrasis.org/> Honor the ancestors, honor the children.