Basil Barrington Watson is Jamaica’s master painter. In 2000 he was awarded a Gold Musgrave Medal by the...
Jean-Michel Basquiat, known for his raw gestural style of painting with graffiti-like images and scrawled text, was the...
Carl Owens is one of the great African-American artists of Detroit. He is best known as an illustrator, portrait artist and fine arts painter. One of his best known works is...
Faith Ringgold is an African-American painter, writer, speaker, mixed media sculptor and performance artist best known for her...
Jacob Lawrence’s The Migration Series (1940–41), a sequence of 60 paintings, depicts the mass movement of African Americans...
Romare Howard Bearden (September 2, 1911- March 12, 1988) was an African-American artist and writer renowned primarily for his collages. In subject matter, Bearden’s brightly-colored collages featured a diverse array of...
Hale Aspacio Woodruff (August 26, 1900 – September 6, 1980) was an African-American artist known for his murals,...
“A people’s art is the genesis of their freedom.” ~Claudia Jones Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. The hardest...
“My historical paintings represent the ultimate reference to the collective memory that all Haitians share about their glorious past and to the energetic force which has allowed their pride to transcend...
Norman W. Lewis was an African American Abstract Expressionism painter. His earlier work was mostly figurative, but in...
“There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less...
“An artist paints his own reality.” “My early paintings have all the rawness and passion of the (football) game.” “One day on the playing field, I looked up and the sun...
Meserette Kentake, founder of Kentake Page, was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, and is of Yoruba descent (mtDNA). Now based in London, she holds a BSc in Counselling Psychology but is most passionate about…
