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 […]
James Knox
James Knox About: James Knox has been photographing the Bay Area jazz scene since 2002. His photographs have been featured in SF Chronicle, Wall Street Journal, Sotheby’s Realty, Visiting Oakland Tourist Guide and album covers/websites for local and national artists. He is contributing photographer for Cuisine Noir Magazine, SFJAZZ, Monterey Jazz Festival and San Jose […]
De’Ana Brownfield
De’Ana Brownfield More info: De’Ana Brownfield is an artist and educator that currently resides in Oakland, California. She utilizes natural material, dyes, and painting to inquire about healing and reconnecting with Afro-Indigenous traditional ways of being. Through the use of personal, collective narratives and mythology, she unearths stories that have been washed out in the […]
Wanda Sabir
Wanda Sabir Special events: A satellite exhibit, MAAFA@25 features 5 artists from AOTAD: James Gayles, Lorraine Bonner, TaSin Sabir, Marva Reed, Wanda Sabirhttps://www.artsteps.com/embed/5f7811bc267a720cbe7628fc/560/315 About: A Panther in Africa – Artist StatementThe series is called: “A Panther in Africa: From St. Louis, Missouri to Ghana, West Africa” (1-3). We are on the elder’s property where he […]
