The Art of Woodrow Nash

Born in the late 40’s in Akron, Ohio, Woodrow Nash is the product of sanctified churches, 1950’s television images, and black inner city neighborhood schools run by predominantly white middle-class educators. The young student immersed himself in art during an era when artists sought nothing less than old-fashioned honesty in their imagery. As a freelance artist, …

SOLD – Dance with Me by Don Stephens

SOLD Dance with Me by Don Stephens Original Acrylic on Board 16 x 20 Donald Stephens resides in Burlington County NJ since 1987.  He has attended Burlington County College obtaining an AAS 90’. Mr. Stephens then furthered his yearning for the arts at Temple University Tyler School of the Arts, where he has achieved his …

SOLD – Music Horn Man by Don Stephens

SOLD Shipping $15 Music Horn Man by Don Stephens Original Acrylic on Canvas 16 x 20 Donald Stephens resides in Burlington County NJ since 1987.  He has attended Burlington County College obtaining an AAS 90’. Mr. Stephens then furthered his yearning for the arts at Temple University Tyler School of the Arts, where he has …

Kara Walker – Visual Artist (Video)

Kara Walker (born November 26, 1969) is a contemporary African American artist who explores race, gender, sexuality, violence and identity in her work. She is best known for her room-size tableaux of black cut-paper silhouettes. Walker was born in Stockton, California in 1969.[1] Her retired father is a formally educated artist, a professor, and an …

Leon Keay – Visual Artist

„Im watching u“ by Leon Keay L.@.K.ART began whilst on my travels through Israel in 1999,although i attended art college in Leicester before this,i didnt really class myself as an artist untill i started producing my own drawings whilst travelling. On my travels in Israel i ended up in Eilat in the south of Israel,living …

A special issue of the International Review of African American Art

Vol. 24, No. 2 – A special issue of the International Review of African American Art on connections between mass media, pop culture, digital technologies and visual art. “Artists are just as much products of contemporary popular culture, in all its mass technological – media frenzy, as we are — we average, non-artistic folk. As …

Eric Holder: Voting Rights Act Can’t Be Called Unnecessary Yet

This print shows when, in 1965, hundreds of civil rights marchers started on a peace march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama led by the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.  Their goal was to secure voting rights for blacks in America.  Just outside Selma, at the Edmond Pettus Bridge, local law enforcement officials repeatedly turned back …

2012 Henry Taylor – African American Artist Profile – W Magazine & New York Times

Henry Taylor, who lives in Los Angeles, paints fast, loose and sensuously on canvases great and small. Portraiture is his work’s center of gravity. His subjects include friends, relatives, acquaintances from the art world and off the street, and heroes from the worlds of sports and politics. Along the way he takes in downbeat cityscapes …

Berry, Diana, Smokey and More! Go Inside the Sleek ’60s Photo Shoot for Motown: The Musical

The stars of Motown: The Musical are getting ready to go dancing in the streets when the Broadway-bound production bows this spring. In a behind the scenes video from a recent photo shoot, cast members Brandon Victor Dixon, Valisia LeKae, Charl Brown and more get dressed to the nines to channel the likes of Berry …

30 Stunning Black woman Paintings and Illustrations by Frank Morrison

Frank Morrison’s paintings stunned me not only for their originality and beauty but also because of their complimentary depictions of the black woman. The body forms of the woman are not anatomically accurate but this is a purposeful technique to elongate the necks making the black women in the paintings look proud with their heads …

After Tanner: African American Artists since 1948 at PAFA

By andrea kirsh April 13, 2012 As recent national news has made painfully clear, ours is not  a post-racial society, and much as I’d rather not see African American artists exhibited in the context of their common racial background, such exhibitions still have a place. That place is particularly important in Philadelphia, where the extent …

Original Palette Knife on canvas Portrait Painting of a Woman by Osnat 48″x36″

Osnat is a self-representing Canadian artist. She is best known for her large-size original abstract landscape and Contemporary modern paintings, but she mostly enjoys the combination of these three. As an artist who sells on and off eBay for more than seven years now, Osnat strives for the best quality in both materials and finish. …