Maalak
Maalak About: “Digital Soul Artist Maalak (Melvin Atkins)” … was born 5th of 7 children in rural Louisiana where art covered the landscape! Plowed fields-Gardens-Animals-Cotton -Changing Seasons & Wild Flowers- Birds-Brightly Colored Trees & Mammas Flower Yard-Ladies Quilting. Paper was scarce so we drew in the sand. My art inspiration came at seeing a young […]
Rodney Bell
Rodney Bell About: Rodney Bell currently resides in Oakland. He was raised in St. Louis, MO. Drawing became his first love. His mother fondly remembers one of his drawings at age 3, an abstract on a man’s white leather jacket. Rodney remembers as a child having “happy hands” when holding two or three crayons in each one. His mother’s […]
Claude Lockhart Clark
Claude Lockhart Clark: My work is about the common man and African Experience. “Honoring the Ancestors: The Woodcarvings of Claude Lockhart Clark”by June Anderson , Claude Lockhart Clark, et al. | Aug 1, 1997Paperback Website: claudeclark.org/apparel More info: ART IS A BUSINESS – I am classified under the heading “urban indigenous artist” – as a […]
Idris Hassan
Idris Hassan Special events: “African Diasporic Art and Healing Workshop” by Idris HassanSaturday, April 3, 2021 – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm This workshop introduces audience members to the importance of artistic expression as a healing tool in the African Diaspora. It includes a brief survey about the history of African-American and African Diasporic Art, […]
Bertrell Smith
Bertrell Smith
Jimi Evins
Jimi Evins About: My bliss is to use my creativity to make art I feel best express my idea of life. Art that challenges and satisfy a profound place in thee spirit (the process of making). Color, shape, texture, and balance, working together are the most inspiring elements of creating. Developing a technique of application […]
Chasya Thierry
Chasya Thierry About: I am a 1st generation California Black Creole. My parents and grandparents were some of the many African Americans who migrated to the West Coast during the great migration in the 1950s and 60s from Louisiana. Catholicism was a big part of my upbringing and I can remember seeing nothing but black […]
Black History Month at Richmond Art Center
Hello, We’re excited that February brings to Richmond Art Center the launch of Art of the African Diaspora. Now in its 25th year, but presented as an online exhibition for the first time, Art of the African Diaspora will present artwork by over 130 Black artists from the Bay Area. Art of the African Diaspora begins during Black History Month, […]
Donna Gatson
Donna Gatson More info: Donna Gatson is primarily a self taught emerging artist. Born and raised on the Monterey Peninsula w/ deep ties to the South and Southwest. Driven by an uncontrollable urge to create art using the mediums of water color, gouache, graphite pencil, metal and assemblage, her work ranges from Black country folk […]
Carrie Lee McClish
Carrie Lee McClish About: These days when I stop before a mirror, it’s not to assess the length or increasing number of grey follicles of my “COVID” hair, but it is to consider whether or not it is the right time to sit down and draw a selfie, or self-portrait. I have been drawing selfies […]
