A free Black History Month poster designed by a College Park artist is available at several locations on the Route 1 corridor.
Curlee R. Holton, executive director of the David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland and a printmaker and painter and whose work has been exhibited for more than 25 years, was chosen to design the poster for the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission‘s arts department.
Titled “Black Health Matters: An Undoctored History of Health Care and Healing Traditions in the Black Community,” the poster shows images of enslaved people picking cotton, a traditional healer using herbal medicines, health care protests at the Capitol and a hospital waiting room during the coronavirus.
“I attempted to capture through an artistic medium many of the dynamic factors in our current health care crisis — factors that arise from issues with class, race, and gender that have been marginalizing forces,” Holton wrote in an artist statement.
The free poster is available at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in Hyattsville, Joe’s Movement Emporium in Mount Rainier and the Brentwood Arts Exchange. Posters are also being distributed through county programs at the library system and meals for seniors.
