“First I’m Black and after that I’m many things.” ~Erik Olivera Rubio Afro-Cuban portrait artist Erik Olivera Rubio...
Jackie Ormes (August 1, 1911 – December 26, 1985) was born Zelda Jackson in a small town outside...
Charles Alston (November 28, 1907 – April 27, 1977) was an African-American Harlem Renaissance artist who created vital representations of black experiences and figures during the middle of the 20th century...
“Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it,...
Tom Feelings (May 19, 1933 – August 25, 2003) was a well-known artist, cartoonist, children’s book illustrator, author,...
Laura Wheeler was an African-American artist and educator, best known for her paintings of prominent African Americans including W.E.B. Du Bois and Marian Anderson. A member of the NAACP, Wheeler also...
Oliver Wendell Harrington was a political cartoonist and originator of Dark Laughter and Jive Gray comic strips and...
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 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...
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…
