My Country Needs MeMy Country Needs Me, 1996 Offset Lithograph Edition of 80 21 1 4 x 30 in Collaborative Printer: Bob Franklin At the top of this print, a line of text reads: My country needs me, and if I were not here, I would have to be invented. The words come from Hortense Spillers' landmark essay "Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe," a foundational text in African American feminist literary criticism on the origins and abuse of racial and gender based language. Below them,

often embedding in simple pattern the innate connection to place…In the period between 1987 and 1989

Ingwer I-IV

Music is totally abstract

The purpose of the internships is to develop students artistic talent by working with master printmakers

This "shield" series is the exploration of the figure/figures in water

Southern California

I milk the object

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Factory VII extends her ongoing Habitat & Urban Matters series

It combines lush

Ortiz-Pagán’s aim is always to create a space in his work for conversation about what he calls “post-industrial realities” that affect the tropics

and for how long