Art by David Charles, Baltimore, MD

Baltimore artist David Charles creates his vibrant, provocative drawings from his childhood experiences watching his Northwest Baltimore neighborhood of Park Heights as it was ravaged by drugs, violence, poverty and police brutality. “I saw the R-rated version straight from the streets and whatever I experienced I created through art,” he says. read more……

SMC celebrates African American art

Ryan Sindon February 20, 2013 Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Top Stories Just in time for Black History Month, Santa Monica College held an opening reception for “African American Treasures: History and Art from the Collection of Bernard and Shirley Kinsey” at the Pete and Susan Barrett Art Gallery on Friday evening. The collection is …

GMOA show highlights African-American artists William Johnson

By Andre Gallant Tragic lives in the art world are so common as to be unfortunately dismissible. Poverty. Infamy. Obscurity. Traits of certain artists have become the stuff of cocktail jokes. There is humor to be had, sure, but there also is reality and the weight of its stupid truths bearing down on a person. …

St. Louis Artist Depicts African American Fathers With Their Children

Cbabi Bayoc: Painting Possibilities Text | Erin Williams for St. Louis Public Radio For the past year, artist and businessman Cbabi Bayoc has attempted to create a portrait a day of a father interacting with his kid. The resulting project, titled “365 Days With Dad,” goes beyond showing fathers who go through the motions of parenthood, and …

IN PRINT: William Pope.L / Interview Magazine / February 2013

Somewhere between formalism and the concrete struggles of race and identity, artist William Pope.L makes works that literally pull people together TEXT | Ross Simonini PHOTOGRAPHY | Grant Delin Excerpt: Beginning in the late ’90s, William Pope.L famously crawled along 22 miles of sidewalk, from the beginning to the end of Broadway—Manhattan’s longest street—wearing a …

Facebook Removes Photo Of Breast Cancer Survivor’s Tattoo, Users Fight Back

The Huffington Post  |  By Sara Gates In a move criticized by many, Facebook removed a photo of a breast cancer survivor’s large chest tattoo, citing a violation of its strict nudity policy, UPI reports. However, the social networking site has since backtracked on its decision, allowing the photo to stay on the Custom Tattoo …

African American Art – My Opinon

African-American art has so become a part of the cultural landscape that there are very few, regardless of personal preferences, who don’t at least own one piece. What is African-American art? The technical definition is; creations which remain a stationary representation of both African American life as well as expressions of ancestral origin. Would you …