A color linocut portrait of a woman wearing a wide-brimmed hat. Her face, rendered in warm brown and black tones, is illuminated from above, showing strong carved lines that define her features and texture. The background and hat are filled with rhythmic, curved strokes, creating movement around her calm, introspective expression.

Elizabeth Catlett, Sharecropper, 1952, printed 1970. Color linocut on cream Japanese paper; 19 × 15 in. (48.3 × 38.1 cm). The Art Institute of Chicago, Restricted gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Hartman, 1992.182.

Alum Elizabeth Catlett's Exhibition Reviewed in Chicago Tribune

By Sophia Salganicoff

School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) alum Elizabeth Catlett (SAIC 1941) is the subject of Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies, now on view at the Art Institute of Chicago and reviewed in the Chicago Tribune. “A remarkably bracing new exhibit stuffed with politics and activism and fascism and standing up for everyday laborers and educators,” the exhibition traces American-Mexican Catlett’s six-decade career. 

Working across sculpture, prints, and painting, the exhibition highlights Catlett’s commitment to depicting the dignity of Black women, everyday laborers, educators, and freedom fighters. From painting Working Woman (1947) to the linocut series I Am the Black Woman and the cedar sculpture Black Unity (1968), Catlett combined aesthetic mastery with political urgency, addressing racial justice, labor rights, motherhood, and the fight against white supremacy through her extensive multimedia practice. 

Alum Talia Chetrit Tapped to Photograph Loewe’s New Era

Alum Talia Chetrit (BFA 2004) photographs Loewe’s new creative era

Alum Talia Chetrit Tapped to Photograph Loewe’s New Era

Photo by Talia Chetrit. Courtesy of Loewe.

Portrait of Eva Victor for Loewe’s Spring/Summer 2026 women’s collection. Photo by Talia Chetrit. Courtesy of Loewe.