Virtual Gallery and Art Tour with Riva Blumenfeld: Elizabeth Catlett

The Brooklyn Museum’s retrospective of over 200 of Catlett’s works finally gives this influential sculptor and printmaker her due. As an Afro-American woman coming of age during the Great Depression, Catlett witnessed class inequality, racial violence, and U.S. imperialism up close.  Catlett employed a visual language distinguished by strongly delineated forms and compositional focus to depict people and perspectives that had been historically excluded from artistic representation—further inspiring the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s.

Riva Blumenfeld is an art historian and educator with 40 years of experience in the art field. Riva was educated in Art History at Washington University in St. Louis and has taught Art Education at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Guggenheim Museum. Having owned an art gallery in Soho for a short period, Riva has a unique knowledge of New York City's art scene and offers insight into the sometimes-intimidating world of New York City's art galleries. Prior to the pandemic, Riva conducted small group tours of NYC's art world.

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