Dr. Melanie Herzog will participate in the panel “Integrity and Bravery: Remembering Elizabeth Catlett” at the Brooklyn Museum on Saturday, September 14, part of the day-long opening celebration for the exhibition “Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies“. This long-awaited retrospective will travel to the National Gallery and the Art Institute of Chicago in 2025. Dr. Herzog’s essay, “‘Thinking About Women’ Through Form, Substance, and Radical Politics,” appears in the exhibition’s companion publication, published by the National Gallery and the Brooklyn Museum and distributed by University of Chicago Press.
Melanie Herzog teaches, publishes, and lectures widely on North American art and visual culture, particularly African American art, and art and visual culture of the African diaspora. She is the author of Elizabeth Catlett: An American Artist in Mexico (University of Washington Press, 2005) and essays about Elizabeth Catlett, African American artists in Mexico, and additional subjects. Currently a Lecturer in the Department of African American Studies at UW-Madison, Dr. Herzog is also a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Professor of Emerita of Art History at Edgewood College.