Olubori Babaoye
Olubori Babaoye About: Greetings! My name is Olubori Babaoye and I am a Nigerian-American multifaceted artist from Oakland, CA. Throughout my elementary years, I drew on the playground with chalk during recess and even sketched on my homework assignments. That was when I was introduced to the Oakland School for the Arts where I studied […]
Jason Byrd
Jason Byrd About: Name: Jason ByrdAge: 29Origins: Philadelphia, PAPresently: Oakland, CAOccupation: Teacher Jason Byrd’s process is an ongoing investigation of the human condition, What are we? From where do we come? Where are we going? He explores themes such as the black family, systemic racism, toxic masculinity, the education gap, consumerism, and capitalism. Byrd tends […]
Dre’An Cox
Dre’An Cox About: Dre’an is an artist at NIAD Center. He works with woodcarving and drawing. He mostly speaks his mind. Dre’an makes what he sees happening like corruption in society or anything wrong nowadays. He focuses on events globally not just in America. Dre’an is also inspired by television, specifically: the original Teen Titans, […]
Doitshā Lexington
Doitshā Lexington About: Summary: Acrylic Paint, Watercolor Pencils, Tissue Paper, Craft Paper, Crayons and Colored Pencils on Canvas, T-shirts, Glass, Paper and some Suns have been created in Ceramics This is my inspired Art, they are creations of God’s Suns. They were created from recurring dreams that I started having in 1994 and for me […]
Yolanda Patton ThaSun
Yolanda Patton ThaSun About: About:My canvas is Life, so that could be anything from cotton, wood, tile or leather to name a few. I use acrylics as my medium and find myself adding different textures such as rocks, metal and anything that allows my imagination to flow. I do custom pieces based on your wish […]
Ester M. Armstrong
Ester M. Armstrong About: I realized at a very young age that I had the innate ability to capture visual images through artistic expression. Eventually my parents took notice of my gift and encouraged me to further develop my gift as an artist. My very first technical artistic instruction came in the form of a […]
Joseph Robinson
Joseph Robinson About: Joseph Robinson was born in Oakland and grew up in the East Bay. Mr. Robinson grew up spending time in the dark room with his late father, who was an active professional jazz photographer in the 1960s and 1970s. Mr. Robinson participated in The Art of Living Black for more than a […]
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 […]
