Firing Squad

Elizabeth Catlett’s prints cry out in protest, proclaim solidarity, demand justice, and celebrate the determination, staunch resistance, and, at times against all odds, sheer survival of ordinary people. For more than sixty years, first in the United States and then in Mexico, Catlett has produced politically charged and aesthetically compelling graphic images of what matters most to...

In 2005, Martha Tedeschi and Mark Pascale, at that time both curators in the Art Institute’s Department of Prints and Drawings, brought the museum’s holdings of nineteenth-century Mexican broadsides and TGP prints to my attention and offered me the opportunity to curate from these historically and artistically significant collections. The present TGP exhibition, as well as the...