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Inside his home studio in New Orleans, artist Michael Deas can spend months working on a single oil painting. But collectors need only spend a few cents to own a print of his most popular works. His portraits sell for pennies. Deas has created 25 stamps for the U.S. Postal Service. “I have a friend […]

He’s honoring the ancestors this Black History Month! In a heartfelt homage to Black History Month, artificial intelligence artist J. Slayer is making a powerful statement through his portrait series, “Give Them Their Flowers.” In this compelling series, the artist pays tribute to departed Black icons, ensuring that their legacies . . .

Though Mr. Bailey himself never migrated from his adopted home, Georgia, after moving there as a child, he chafed at being pigeonholed as a Southern artist, or for that matter as a Black artist. “I don’t want to be the ‘other,’” he said in a 2013 interview with Bomb magazine. “I see myself as making […]

12 November 2023 Image source, Nolis Anderson/Mariane Ibrahim Gallery Amoako Boafo, who has become a superstar in the art world, has moved back home to Ghana, where one of his self-portraits is being exhibited. He told journalist Stephen Smith that he never intended to be an artist. For all Amoako Boafo’s head-turning success, he is […]

Detailed. Delicate. Colorful. Laurentine Périlhou’s three-dimensional flowers look more like embroidery than macramé, the traditional knotting technique long associated with 1970s wall art and plant hangers. “People never imagined we could do this kind of thing with knots,” Ms. Périlhou, 38, said as she turned over the arched petal of a knotted white and gold […]

Thirty-five years after Tracy Chapman’s iconic track was first released, the singer-songwriter became the first Black artist to win Song of the Year at this year’s Country Music Awards on Wednesday night. Meanwhile, country music star Luke Combs won the CMA for Single of the Year for his recent cover of “Fast Car.” In March […]

limited edition series of only 300 units of the bust ($8,100) and 1,500 units of the head ($2,390) online at lladro.com and at Lladró boutiques around the worldLladró Láolú Senbanjo’s singular black and gold geometric patterns welcome Yoruba culture and other Nigerian traditions into a contemporary context, translating the New York-based Nigerian artist’s drawing onto […]

As part of the preparations for her first solo exhibition, held this past summer at the NOW Gallery in South London, Simone Brewster designed “Crown,” a set of wooden combs inspired by traditional African hairstyles. But since the multidisciplinary artist and designer already was creating jewelry and paintings for the selling show, designing its layout […]

Ed Johnetta Miller, a fiber artist, quilter, teacher, curator, and lecturer based in Hartford, is renowned as one of the most creative and colorful improvisational quiltmakers in the U.S. Widely exhibited in the U.S. and internationally, her quilts can be found in many important museums and corporate and private collections, including The National Gallery of […]

After two days of competition, Chuck Black of Belgrade, Montana, emerged as the winner of the 2023 Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest with an oil painting of a northern pintail. The announcement was made at an event and via live stream at the Olmstead Center at . . .


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