Audre Lorde

Josh MacPhee, organizer

born 1973

Stumptown Printers, printer

founded 1999

Katrina Silander Clark, artist

Audre Lorde, 2013

Portfolio/Series title: Celebrate People's History Poster Series

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: color offset lithograph

Dimensions:
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 434 x 280 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 17 1/16 x 11 in

Credit line: Museum purchase: Elmer F. Pierson Fund

Accession number: 2016.0124.088

On display: Marshall Balcony

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This poster celebrates Audre Lorde, a Black, lesbian activist and writer who died of cancer in 1992, but whose work continues to have a powerful influence among artists. Lorde is known for her radical honesty and confronting various injustices. She wrote: “… we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us.”