Art, Identity, and Memory: Women Illustrators and The Crisis, 1910–34

"Art, Identity, and Memory: Women Illustrators and The Crisis, 1910-1934" investigates the artwork exhibited in The Crisis, and the inventive, creative, and tenacious women on its covers and in its pages who illustrated modern Black life through artistic expression.  It explores the techniques of artistic creation, politics, and subject matter to understand how Women illustrators of The Crisis created an identity and forged historical memory.