Art Card - Winfred Rembert: Ben Shorter IV

Thrumming with music, motion, and saturated color, this card revisits the soda shops and juke joints of artist Winfred Rembert’s youth in the Deep South.

Rembert’s visual storytelling is a graphic diary of sorts, capturing the people, places, and experiences significant to him. At age 51, at his wife’s urging, Rembert began carving and painting his life story onto leather. His remarkable body of work speaks to the legacy of slavery, segregation, and racial violence under Jim Crow, and also pays tribute to the poetry of Black life in the South, and the rich tradition of Black struggle, solidarity, and joy.

The message inside this cardreads: Happy birthday!

Printed on high-quality 250 gsm recycled or FSC card stock, using soy-based inks.

Notecard Size: 5in x 7in.