The Art of Justice
The Art of Justice About: My journey as an artist began in 1977 when I was enlightened by my uncle Nolan on a unique wood carving technique that his older brother Donald learned in prison. My first efforts were exact duplicates of my uncles’ work. After a few pieces, I altered their designs to add […]
Charles Curtis Blackwell
Charles Curtis Blackwell About: Legally blind poet, painter, playwright and teacher who guides us on an intimate journey of his past and present. Blackwell reveals stories of survival, memories and poetry, with fine art interspersed, social justice in motion, speaking powerfully his poems and music. Each of these media expose Blackwell’s challenging upbringing in both […]
Julee Richardson
Julee Richardson About: I have always known that my imagination could take my aesthetic experience anywhere I wished to go. My formal undergraduate art training began in Buffalo at the State University of New York. My work is inspired by what I feel and what I see. Seeing, expressing and creating art, which is influenced […]
Dulama LeGrande
Dulama LeGrande About: “My works are prayers. Marks and strokes of paint serve as invocations.” Bio: Dulama LeGrande is a visual artist born and reared in the Bay Area with a current studio practice in Oakland, CA. He has been making art with professional intent for the past seventeen years and taught art for a […]
Mia Mya Dawson
Mia Mya Dawson About: Mia Mya Dawson is an artist with NIAD Art Center who works in pencils, watercolors, ceramics and fiber. “It’s so challenging not to think so much and just to do the work. I create work from different experiences in my life. They show up in my mind.” Website: niadart.org/arista-dawson More info: […]
Lorraine Bonner
Lorraine Bonner About: Lorraine Bonner turned to art to deal with personal trauma. Her work has moved from personal/political betrayal, in the Perpetrator series, to a vision of humanity beyond socially defined “color” in the Multi-Hued Humanity series. She calls her current series Mending, creating new beauty from our scars and broken places. Lorraine Bonner […]
Genesse McGaugh
Genesse McGaugh About: Genesse McGaugh is a 1999 graduate of Oakland’s California College of Art. The words “and Craft” had been removed from the name. As a precocious 5 year old, she certainly did her share of craft making, while attending Berkeley Child Art Studio. Though a child with extensive sight impairment, she participated in […]
Elmarise Owens
Elmarise Owens About: I am an artist and a photographer. During this pandemic and subsequent quarantine, I decided to learn something different but still within the art world. I decided to learn how to do acrylic pours and alcohol ink. I have watched countless numbers of YouTube videos and decided to give it a try. […]
Raymond L. Haywood
Raymond L. Haywood About: I am an abstract expressionist painter. Improvisation and color are the essential elements of my abstract seascapes and landscapes. Dominant motifs and inspiration for my work are land, sea and sky. I have recently begun incorporating cowrie shells as emotional avatars into my paintings. Painting is the praxis that facilitates an […]
Derrick Bell
Derrick Bell About: Cincinnati, Ohio native and Oakland based Fine Artist, Educator, Entrepreneur and Philanthropist. His work is thought provoking and capable of arousing strong emotions that cut across ethnic, national and generational barriers. The artistic renderings convey a deep sense of emotion, spirituality, dignity, history, strength and grace. Bell’s works are inspired by his […]
