Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
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...
Jean-Michel Basquiat, known for his raw gestural style of painting with graffiti-like images and scrawled text, was the African American artist who emerged from the “Punk” scene in New York and...
Carl Owens is one of the great African-American artists of Detroit. He is best known as an illustrator,...
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 from the rural South to the urban North between World War I and...
Romare Howard Bearden (September 2, 1911- March 12, 1988) was an African-American artist and writer renowned primarily for...
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 hit, the place where so many lost their lives, was the Lower Ninth...
“My historical paintings represent the ultimate reference to the collective memory that all Haitians share about their glorious...
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 than the one you are capable of living.” ~Nelson Mandela Here are 10...
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…
