Description
Freedom Now by Margaret Taylor Burroughs
Linocut Print
23″ x 28″ Â Approx.
Open Edition Print
Margaret Burroughs is recognized for her work as an artist, educator, and institution-builder. Though she lived and worked in Chicago for much of her life, Burroughs exerted a global impact on African American artistic and cultural heritage as a founder of the South Side Community Art Center, an organization that continues to serve as a gallery and workshop space for artists and students on Chicago’s South Side, and the DuSable Museum of African American History. Burroughs and her second husband, poet Charles Burroughs, started the DuSable, then called the Ebony Museum, in 1961 in their living room. The oldest museum dedicated exclusively to African American art and history, the DuSable now occupies a complex of buildings in Washington Park in Chicago and is affiliated with the Smithsonian.
