Winfred Rembert
Winfred Rembert (1945 – 2021) was an African-American artist who used hand-tools and shoe dye on leather canvases. An award-winning feature-length documentary film about his life, All Me: The Life and Times of Winfred Rembert, was released in 2011. He was honored by the Equal Justice Initiative in 2015, and was awarded a United States Artists Barr Fellowship in 2016. In his final years, Rembert engaged in an extensive series of conversations and interviews with the philosopher Erin I. Kelly, in order to properly record and bear witness to his life. The resulting memoir, Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South, was published posthumously in September 2021 and won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.