When Erin Williams was growing up in Washington, D.C. her mother glanced at her childhood drawings and told her her work was ‘primitive.’ Williams fel...
Jamie Robertson focuses on the Black landscape of a rural Texas county, and the union of her great-grandparents. Photographs of family homes embedded...
In 2015, Brooklyn-based artist and culture writer Ashley Chew painted ‘Black Models Matter’ onto a handbag. Her hashtag went viral during New York Fas...
Ohio-based artist Gregory DeGroat sang in gospel groups, fronted bands, and worked for the railroad before shifting to art and design. He was hired af...
Self-taught artist Daphné Essiet was born in Los Angeles, raised in the South of France, and settled down in Harlem. Inspired by the poets Maya Angelo...
Digital Artist Davian Chester is known as the ‘Juneteenth Guy.’ In 2019, he turned to Google on the nineteenth of June and was shocked by the absence...
In 2016, David Roy founded a space agency called BLACKNASA. He considers the process of making art “a practice of freedom that should never be estrang...
Philip Thomas is a ceramic artist and science-fiction writer who's been sculpting since he was four years old. His work centers on a fictional univers...
