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Artist Synthia Saint James Leads Workshop

Posted on May 14, 2015 by Kirsten Giebutowski

  • Workshop participants gather for a portrait with their instructor, visiting artist Synthia Saint James.

  • Debra Kraemer, Vivian Ilonzo ('18), and Bennie Niles ('15) at work on their collages.

  • Eunjin Lee talks with Synthia Saint James.

  • Synthia Saint James circulates as participants begin work on their projects.

  • Jordan Michael Terry ('15) at work on his collage.

The African and African American Studies Program invited artist Synthia Saint James to Dartmouth to lead a workshop on designing book covers.

Saint James is the award-winning author and/or illustrator of more than twenty books, and her work is featured on the covers of books by best-selling authors such as Terry McMillan and Alice Walker. She is also known as the designer of the first Kwanzaa stamp for the US Postal Service in 1997. Saint James’s work can be found in a number of collections, including at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, at Spelman College in Atlanta, and in several United States Embassies.  

Undergraduate and graduate students, visiting scholars, staff, and medical students participated in the workshop, each using collage to carry out their inspiration.