Occupation-Artist
Charles Smith (1940- )
Charles Smith, a visual artist, historian, activist, and minister, was born on November 11, 1940, to Bertha Mary Smith and...
Pauline Powell Burns (1872-1912)
Pauline Powell Burns was a pianist and a painter who was most well known for her early art exhibitions in...
Kamal Al Mansour (1959- )
Kamal Al Mansour is an African American artist and inventor who graduated from University of California Los Angeles in 1981...
Michael Stewart (1958-1983)
Michael Stewart was a New York City graffiti artist who died following an incident with the city’s transit police. Although...
Pellom McDaniels III (1968-2020)
Pellom McDaniels, the first born of Pellom and Mary McDaniels, was born on February 21, 1968. He was an all-American...
James R. Bacote II (1948-2018)
James Richardson Bacote was an artist, preservationist, historian and co-founder of the Geechee Kunda Cultural Center in Georgia. Bacote was...
James Amos Porter (1905-1970)
James Amos Porter was the first African American art historian. Born on December 22, 1905 in Baltimore, Maryland, he was the son of...
Langston Hughes’ Visit to the Soviet Union (1932-1933)
In June of 1932, poet Langston Hughes, political activist Louise Thompson, and 22 other African American artists, filmmakers, and actors, traveled to the Soviet Union (USSR) to create a...
Grafton Tyler Brown (1841-1918)
Grafton Tyler Brown, the most successful African American artist in the 19th Century west, lived his adult life as a...
