Black Women’s Wisdom: Jane Bolin
Ben Blount
2019 · Letterpress from wood and metal type · Drawings and Prints
Black Women’s Wisdom (2021.60.7-.10) commemorates the contributions of four boundary-breaking Black women through their own inspirational words. These figures include Misty Copeland, the first African American woman to become principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre; attorney Jane Bolin, who became the first Black female judge in the United States; Marian Anderson, the first African American singer to perform as a member of the Metropolitan Opera in New York; and civil rights leader Amelia Boynton. Blount chose to foreground trailblazing women whose legacies continue to be overlooked in mainstream narratives of U.S. history.
- Artist
- Ben Blount
- Date
- 2019
- Medium
- Letterpress from wood and metal type
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- John B. Turner Fund, 2020