Freida High Wasikhongo Tesfagiorgis
Freida High Wasikhongo Tesfagiorgis, MA, MFA, Ph.D., is an artist and art historian, and Emerita Professor of African and African American Art History and Visual Culture, Departments of African American Studies, Gender & Women's Studies, and Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Hidden Memories: Mary Turner memorializes Mrs. Turner in an abstract icon of martyrdom, rather than in the upside-down figural depiction of her actual lynching (she was hanged by her ankles, set afire and shot—her unborn child was cut from her womb).
