Leo Twiggs is one of the South’s best-known artists, with several years of experience under his wings. The Claflin University and New York University graduate is the first student to graduate with a doctorate in art from the University of Georgia.
View MoreTag: African American Artist
It’s Time We Listened to These Radical Women Artists | LA Weekly
To pursue something more ambitious professionally was to push against tightly held, deeply entrenched norms.
View More
The Perfect Woman to Paint Michelle Obama | The New York Times
It elevates a different kind of nuance in black portraiture, one that is even rarer: Ms. Sherald paints blackness that is quiet, ordinary and individual.
View More
Sanford Biggers Summons the Power of Deep Music | Hyperallergic
Biggers’s current exhibition at Marianne Boesky gallery, Selah, taps into something deeply powerful and ancestral.
View More
Baltimore artist Amy Sherald to paint Michelle Obama’s official portrait | The Baltimore Sun
Baltimore artist Amy Sherald, who graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2004 and just joined the faculty there, has been commissioned by the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery to paint the official portrait of former first lady Michelle Obama.
View More
The Soul of Black Comics: An Interview with John Jennings | Black Perspectives
Jennings is a scholar and artist whose artistic work is deeply influenced by the African American cultural experience and explores intersectional narratives linked to identity.
View More
Take a Look at All This Black Genius the MacArthur Foundation Has Recognized | The Root
The best way to start any day is with some black excellence, and today that cup runneth the hell over. The list of MacArthur fellows is out, and this year, six of the recipients are black.
View More
Amy Sherald, nationally acclaimed artist with Columbus roots, returning home as lecturer | Ledger Enquirer
“The only reason that I wanted to do this is because I want to change people’s expectations as to what they may see when they walk into an institution that tells them what is valuable and to validate peoples’ existence in so many ways.”
View More
#DrawingWhileBlack Is an Online Celebration of Gifted Black Artists | OkayAfrica
The hashtag was created by Twitter user, Annabelle H, who mapped out the rules for #DrawingWhileBlack on her page last Wednesday.
View More
These 20 Female Artists Are Pushing Figurative Painting Forward | Artsy
“We are living in a time that’s ripe with debate over what it means to be a human in one kind of body or another,” says Emily Mae Smith.
View More