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Kerry James Marshall has built his career around a defining ambition: to place Black people at the center...

“I have strong sympathy for all women who have struggled and suffered.” Mary Edmonia Lewis, known in childhood...

Fine Art artist and historian, Diane Britton Dunham, has receive global recognition for her Gullah/Creole inspired art. Her paintings represent life in South Carolina’s Lowcountry and Louisiana bayous. A self-taught mixed...

“First I’m Black and after that I’m many things.” ~Erik Olivera Rubio Afro-Cuban portrait artist Erik Olivera Rubio...

Charles Alston (November 28, 1907 – April 27, 1977) was an African-American Harlem Renaissance artist who created vital...

“Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that...

Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (June 9, 1877 – 18 March 1968) was an African-American sculptor, whose career lasted more than seventy years....

Legend of the Crown: “The Art of African Kings and Queens” is more than a set of striking...

Basil Barrington Watson, OJ was one of Jamaica’s foremost painters and a central figure in the development of post-Independence Jamaican art. In 2000, he received the Institute of Jamaica’s Gold Musgrave...

Carl Owens is one of the great African-American artists of Detroit. He is best known as an illustrator,...

“If one can, anyone can, all you gotta do is try” Faith Ringgold was an American painter, writer,...

Jacob Lawrence’s The Migration Series (1940–41), a sequence of 60 paintings, depicts the mass movement of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North between World War I and...