Self-taught artist Winfred Rembert worked with hand tools and dye to create dynamic scenes of Black life in the South during the Jim Crow era. Raised in Georgia, as a youth Rembert worked in the cotton fields before surviving a near-lynching. After attending a civil rights demonstration, he was thrown in prison without charges or a trial. While imprisoned for several years, he learned to tool and dye leather to make billfolds, skills he revisited years later at the behest of his wife, Patsy. Using leather as his canvas, Rembert crafted intricate, composed scenes that process the trauma and the joy of his life in Cuthbert, Georgia.

–Sara Cherner, from the Glenstone Field Guide