Charles Alston (November 28, 1907 – April 27, 1977) was an African-American Harlem Renaissance artist who created vital...
Aaron Douglas (May 26, 1899—February 2, 1979) was an African American painter and graphic artist who played a...
Tom Feelings (May 19, 1933 – August 25, 2003) was a well-known artist, cartoonist, children’s book illustrator, author, teacher, and activist. From the dawn of the U.S. civil rights era, when...
Oliver Wendell Harrington was a political cartoonist and originator of Dark Laughter and Jive Gray comic strips and...
Legend of the Crown: “The Art of African Kings and Queens” is more than a set of striking...
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...
Jacob Lawrence was one of the most important artists of the 20th century, widely renowned for his modernist...
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...
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…
