Winfred Rembert

Winfred Rembert (November 22, 1945 – March 31, 2021) was an African-American artist who used hand-tools and shoe dye on leather canvases.

[6] Rembert stretched, tooled, and dyed leather, using shoe dye to depict scenes from the rural Jim Crow south where he was born and raised.

In April 2010, Rembert had his first one-man show, Memories of My Youth, at the Adelson Galleries in New York City.

The film has also been shown at the Library of Congress and has been screened across the United States and Canada, often accompanied by exhibits of Rembert's paintings.

Rembert has been the subject of another documentary and several news stories in which he is reported to be one of only a few people known to have survived a lynching during the Jim Crow era.

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.