February is Black History Month and the African-American Affairs Commission (AAAC) will host “ALL ME: The Life and Times of Winfred Rembert”.

                                                                               

Artist – Winfred Rembert

February is Black History Month and the African-American Affairs Commission (AAAC) will host “ALL ME: The Life and Times of Winfred Rembert”.

Winfred Rembert is a self-taught artist, who works out of a humble home in the Newhallville Section of New Haven, CT.  Rembert hand-tools and paints on leather canvases. He uses large sheets of tanned leather into which he carves pictures and then paints them with indelible leather dyes, expressing his colorful, often painful, memories of the Jim Crow south during his youth.

Rembert grew up in Cuthbert, Georgia, where he spent much of his childhood laboring in the cotton fields. He was arrested during a 1960s civil rights march. As a prisoner, he learned to make tooled leather wallets and design on leather.

Now Rembert is telling the next chapter of that story—how a man who learned to tool leather in prison has emerged as an artist on a national platform. The story is captured in a documentary “ALL ME: The Life and Times of Winfred Rembert”. The African-American Affairs Commission will be hosting a film screening & discussion on February 24, 2016 in the Old Judiciary Room of the State Capitol at 1:30PM. Artist Winfred Rembert and the film’s Director, Vivian Ducat will be on hand for Q&A after the film.

Rembert’s art work will be displayed in the Legislative Office Building Concourse, 300 Capitol Avenue, Hartford, CT. The public is invited and encouraged to stop by to view the art exhibit, week days during business hours February 15 – 29, 2016.

http://winfredrembert.com/