An interview with Erin Kelly, Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University, and co-author of "Chasing Me To My Grave: An Artist's Memoir Of The Jim Crow South."
The late Winfred Rembert was a New Haven-based artist and master storyteller, in both words and images
He documented his life with art, carving scenes from rural Georgia into leather. His sense of design, use of color, and ability to visually tell the story of the often-brutal American black experience have earned him comparisons with such renowned artists as Jacob Lawrence.
His autobiography features images of fishing in the culvert or dancing in the juke joint — but also of picking cotton, escaping a lynching, and working on the chain gang.
He didn't start his path as an artist until he was 52, but art transformed his life and brought his life story to national attention.