Elizabeth Catlett is widely known for her politically charged prints and sculptural works during the 1960s and 1970s. Catlett is both a sculptor and printmaker and was born in Washington DC in 1915. She earned a bachelor's degree in design, printmaking and drawing from Howard University followed by a master's degree in sculpture from the University of Iowa in 1940. Catlett studied sculpture and painting alongside Grant Wood; upon graduation she became the first student to receive a bachelor's degree in sculpture from the University of Iowa. After leaving Iowa, Catlett moved to New Orleans and in 1940 became chairman of the art department at Dillard University. She later continued her postgraduate studies in ceramics at the University of Chicago in 1941. In 1944 she married and moved to Harlem where she taught tailoring and sculpture. In 1945, Catlett applied for and received the Julius Rosenwald Foundation Fellowship. After successfully completing a series of prints, paintings and sculptures, she was able to renew this scholarship, which allowed her to continue her work in Mexico City. While in Mexico City, he continued his studies in painting, sculpture, and lithography and eventually worked with the People's Graphic Arts Workshop; which was a group of printmakers who created art to promote social change. She eventually settled in Mexico as a permanent resident where she taught sculpture at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City until retiring in 1975. Throughout her career, Elizabeth Catlett protested, picketed, and was even arrested in the name of social activism as she used her art to advance the cause of improving the lives of African American and Mexican women. Thanks to his intense work to reach... middle of paper... years, he had the opportunity to join the Art Students League of New York and in 1969 he was invited by Bob Blackburn to join his printmaking business. garage. It was here that Maxwell Taylor worked alongside Elizabeth Catlett and those influences are prominent in his print works. Catlett's own ideology influenced others in important ways and it is interesting to see how this has resonated far beyond America. Finally, Catlett's body of work is its dominant quality without being aesthetically aggressive. The narratives in the work speak to racial and social inequalities. in America in the 1990s. This deep concern for colorful experience and the struggle for civil rights is visible in the images and sculptures he creates. Especially women, as she lived through a period of widespread segregation, so her work was created from the place she knew most intimately.