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Nov 22, 1945 Cuthbert, Georgia, United States 78 years old
American artist
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About Winfred Rembert
- Winfred Rembert is an African-American artist who hand-tools and paints on leather canvases. 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.
- Rembert stretches, stains, and etches on leather and creates scenes from the rural Southern town where he was born and raised. An award winning documentary film about his life, All Me: The Life and Times of Winfred Rembert, was released in 2011.
- It has won awards at the Chicago International Film Festival, Salem Film Fest, Heartland Film Festival, Arlington International Film Festival, Hamptons Take 2 Documentary Film Festival and the Northhampton International Film Festival.Another short documentary, Ashes to Ashes, honoring victims of lynchings in the south, featured Rembert, the "only known survivor of a lynching." Ashes to Ashes premiered at the Mountainfilm Festival on May 24, 2019
