As the founder of Woman’s Art Journal and the author of influential textbooks, she documented the work of many accomplished ...

A s we enter International Black Women's History Month, Black art has always been a means of documenting and creating history ...

The recognition comes close on the heels of a Barnes exhibit that marked a homecoming for Thomas who Alicia Keys calls "bold, ...

Last year Charlie Porter came out with ‘ What Artists Wear ’ and Ténèze reads it a lot, she admits. “He says that he’s a ...

Often working from her own studio ... Woman, and was herself the subject of a portrait by the famed painter Kehinde Wiley. Thomas’ artwork, which critics have called post-black and post ...

In 2016, she submitted one of her paintings, a portrait called Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance), featuring an elegant African-American woman holding an oversized teacup, to the ...

The artist’s tapestries, which incorporate distorted self-portraits and screenshots from ... the Philadelphia-based artist. As a queer Black woman, she says, she wants to “talk about the ...

One recent Wednesday night in Atlanta, dozens of people gathered in a studio space armed with ... interest in line dancing in the Black community. Black women who supported her have dubbed ...

One such story is embodied in an anonymous 1850s daguerreotype (an image created on silver-coated copper plate) of a young man holding a chicken − a man for whom a painted portrait was probably ...

Black art has been notoriously difficult to find. While there are tons of talented artists all around the globe, their work is often underrepresented in museums and galleries. However, if there’s one ...

Detroit-based artist Desiree Kelly is known for her compelling portraits and murals that ... with their own eyes that this young, talented Black woman from Detroit is doing it.” ...

both in the practice studio and another day when I join him at a client’s lavish townhouse in Knightsbridge. Kaviani is dressed all in black, staring intensely, and it’s easy for me to see the ...