LAFAYETTE TODAY
“Legacy” Celebrates
McDonogh
A new work by master printmaker Curlee Raven Holton is available in a limited edition of 100 signed prints. Entitled “Legacy,” it celebrates and supports the creation of a campus sculpture honoring David Kearney McDonogh, the College’s first African American graduate and perhaps the first person with legal status as a slave ever to receive a college degree. Sculptor Melvin Edwards has been engaged to create a sculpture commemorating Lafayette’s granting of a degree to McDonogh in 1844.
Holton, professor of art and director of Lafayette’s Experimental Printmaking Institute, says the serigraph and relief print “speaks to the importance of the relationship of Lafayette’s African American alumni to the College and larger issues of educational opportunities locally and nationally.” The signed print will be shipped with a letter of provenance. The image size is 18 by 24 inches, the paper size
22 by 30 inches. The purchase price is $1,000. For information, contact EPI, (610) 330-5592 or
holtonc@lafayette.edu.
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