| Hosted by | The Justice Collaboratory at YLS |
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| Details | The Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School and Public Humanities at Yale honor beloved longtime New Haven resident Winfred Rembert — the late Georgia-born artist, Equal Justice Initiative honoree, and 2022 Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South — with a distinguished panel of intimates, artists, and scholars for an evening of discussion and community. Winfred Rembert (1945 – 2021) was an artist from Cuthbert, Georgia, whose paintings have been exhibited at museums and galleries around the country. He was recently cited as “one of the century’s most unique and visionary artist-chroniclers of Black American life, alongside such giants as Jacob Lawrence and Horace Pippin.” Rembert grew up in a family of field laborers. He joined the Civil Rights movement as a teenager, survived a near-lynching at the hands of law enforcement, and spent seven years on chain gangs. Decades later, at the age of 51 and encouraged by his wife Patsy, Rembert became an artist to share his life story by carving, tooling, and painting autobiographical scenes from his youth onto leather canvas, using leather-tooling skills he had learned in prison. Rembert was honored by the Equal Justice Initiative in 2015, and in 2016 received a United States Artists Barr Fellowship. His illustrated memoir Chasing Me to My Grave, as told to Erin I. Kelly, with a foreword by Bryan Stevenson, was long-listed for the Carnegie Medal of Excellence in Nonfiction and won the Mary Lynn Kotz Award for Art in Literature and the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Biography. Panelists Patsy Rembert (Rembert’s wife of 46 years, youth advocate) Erin l. Kelly (Rembert’s co-author, Professor of Philosophy, Tufts University) Reginald Dwayne Betts (JC member, Founder & Director of Freedom Reads) Elizabeth Hinton (JC member, Professor of History, Yale University) Kymberly N. Pinder (Dean, Yale School of Art) |
| Admission | FREE |
| Location | NXTHVN |
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| More Info | info link |