‘Imprinted: Illustrating Race’ | UDaily
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on June 10, 2022
Article by Ann Manser
Photos courtesy of the Norman Rockwell Museum, UD Special Collections and Museums, Chris Hopkins, Loveis Wise
June 10, 2022
From literature to magazine articles to cereal ads, illustrators have long been commissioned to produce work that attracts attention and often becomes part of popular culture and public perception, said the University of Delaware’s Robyn Phillips-Pendleton.
An illustrator herself, the professor of art and design knows that those perceptions that commercial illustrations reflect and disseminate can be — and often have been — derogatory . . .
