Black Art Finds Its Own Space More Galleries Are Showing It, More People Are Buying It And Philadelphia Just Might Be Emerging As Its “National Mecca.”

Lucien Crump Art Gallery By Alexis Moore, Inquirer Staff Writer POSTED: August 14, 1989 Ten years ago, Germantown’s Lucien Crump, artist, educator and entrepreneur, could have communicated with all of …

Black Artists: Painted Into A Corner? Some Say Racism And Ignorance Still Limit Options In The Galleries

By BARBARA BECK, Daily News Staff Writer POSTED: July 20, 1988 Barkley L. Hendricks remembers when he and other fellow artists, all prize- winning graduates of the Pennsylvania Academy of …

Reviving The Work Of 2 Black Artists With Ties To The City

By Edward J. Sozanski, Inquirer Art Critic POSTED: March 01, 1987 Black artists in America have been among the most invisible of Ralph Ellison’s “invisible men”; it has been only …

Art is no Extravagance Published Sunday Sun 1986

Article written by an October Gallery staff member that was published in the Philadelphia Sunday Sun 1986

From A Quiet Still Life To An Action-packed Sports Scene

By Victoria Donohoe, Inquirer Art Critic POSTED: May 23, 1986 Among the current crop of solo exhibits around town, my highest praise goes to the young painter Scott Noel, featured …

October Gallery’s first gallery art show and sale 1985. Artist Tom Mckinney.

Clown by Tom Mckinney But Beautiful by Tom Mckinney Street Corner Symphony by Tom Mckinney Tom Mckinney Exhibiting at Expo 15 – 2000