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The Missing Colors of Black American Pigment-Making
George Washington Carver is remembered as an innovative agricultural scientist, but his overlooked artistic work places him in a lineage of Black American natural dyeing traditions.
Teju Adisa-Farrar is a Craft Archival Fellow. She highlights how Black artists and crafters preserved and adapted ancestral methods from the 18th to the 20th centuries as part of their cultural heritage.