Winfred Rembert, whose portrayals of black life in the rural South have drawn acclaim in the past two years, will be featured in the Yale University Art Gallery's third annual ARTpARTners program.
Rembert will join Nancy R. Savin, arts television reporter and producer, in a conversation at 5 p.m. on Thursday, June 13, in the gallery's McNeil Lecture Hall (enter on High Street). The event is free, and members of the public are invited to attend.
Rembert will talk with Savin about his paintings, life and vision. The two worked together in the fall of 200, when Rembert's paintings on leather were exhibited at the Yale Art Gallery, and Savin directed and produced a prize-winning documentary on the artist for Connecticut Public Television.
Born and raised in Cuthbert, Georgia -- the setting of most of his works -- Rembert learned to tool and carve leather during an eight-year sentence in prison following a civil rights demonstration. He later moved north to New Haven, where he lives with his wife, Patsy, and their eight children. Since the exhibit at Yale, Rembert's works have been featured in several solo and group shows.
The ARTpARTners program honors teachers, students and supporters of the museum's education and outreach activities.
"It is particularly appropriate that Winfred speaks at this event focusing on the education mission of the art gallery," says Mary L. Kordak, the Jan and Frederick Mayer Curator of Education at the Yale museum. "He is passionately dedicated to teaching young people not only about the harsh, often violent conditions so many African Americans endured in the very recent past, but also about the power of art in telling their stories."
Kordak will present remarks at the program, along with Jock Reynolds, the Henry J. Heinz II Director of the Yale Art Gallery.
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