is an assemblage art trailblazer and creator of a broad body of work exploring American social, political and economic issues, plus spirituality, mysticism and African traditions. The most famous ...

Deseré Mayo created the artwork "Soulful Joy," at right, featured in a new exhibit at the Madison College art gallery through February. A nonstop creator, Mayo put the same image on a T-shirt for an ...

White’s mural, The Contribution of the Negro to American Democracy (1943) at Hampton University is perhaps his best-known work, depicting famous African Americans across history. He saw art as a ...

Sojourner Truth, a revered woman, was very passionate about women’s rights. The famous African American abolitionist is best known for her speech, “Ain’t I a Woman?” at the Ohio Women’s ...

Elimo Njau, legendary artist, director of the famous Paa ya Paa Arts Gallery ... this historical personage together with his African-American wife, the artist-poet Philda Ragland-Njau.

Yet, like many wives of famous artists, she was integral to his success ... the first published African-American female poet. She also wrote an award-winning historical novel about African ...

As Black History Month arrives, the murals of iconic Graves County and African American artists Helen LaFrance and Ellis Wilson were recently completed in the ongoing Dunbar Park project.