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Howard University Gallery of Art Lends Elizabeth Catlett Works to Major Exhibition on Black Women’s Historical Memory

The Howard University Gallery of Art is lending three works by alumna Elizabeth Catlett to the exhibition 'She Speaks: Black Women Artists and the Power of Historical Memory' at the Banneker-Douglass-Tubman Museum. The loan includes the prints 'My Right is a Future of Equality with Other Americans,' 'My Role Has Been Important in the Struggle to Organize the Unorganized,' and 'In Sojourner Truth I Fight For the Rights of Other Women.'

This collaboration highlights Howard University's role as a steward of Black artistic heritage and extends its educational mission. The loan agreement includes student engagement opportunities with the museum, reinforcing the exhibition's focus on art as a vehicle for historical reckoning and cultural continuity through a Black feminist lens.