Baldwin (2017)

Melanie Cervantes (artist/printer)
8.5″ x 11″,1 layer handmade screen print, Various papers and color combinations, Printed in my kitchen, San Leandro, July 2017, Open Edition(s)

This print takes a quote excerpted from a letter James Baldwin wrote to his nephew and includes Baldwin’s “thoughts on his nephew’s future—in a country with a terrible history of racism.” The entire letter can be read at: http://progressive.org/magazine/letter-nephew/