#African American

Alma Thomas, Earth Sermon – Beauty, Love And Peace, 1971, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA. Women Artists

Celebrating Alma Thomas: An African American Expressionist

Abstract Expressionism was a movement dominated by male artists. Painters such as Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning have held center...

Heather Johnson 3 April 2026

Women Artists

Tar Beach: Faith Ringgold’s Journey from Story Quilts to Picture Books

With the publication of Tar Beach in 1991, Faith Ringgold launched her career as a picture book author and illustrator. Her interest in picture books...

Guest Author 2 April 2026

Women Artists

Faith Ringgold: An American Icon

Faith Ringgold was an artist, educator, storyteller, activist, and a mother. Ringgold was also an American treasure whose artistic journey has...

Jennifer S. Musawwir 23 March 2026

North American Art

QUIZ: Do You Know Your Black American Artists?

Candy Bedworth 7 March 2026

Women Artists

Clementine Hunter: Painting Black Life from Memory

Clementine Hunter taught herself to paint in her fifities and spent the rest of her life chronicling the Black Southern experience, not with slogans...

Wen Gu 23 February 2026

Quiz

QUIZ: Art and Artists of the Harlem Renaissance

Theodore Carter 21 February 2026

North American Art

William H. Johnson in 10 Artworks—From Post-Impressionism to Folk Art

William H. Johnson’s paintings show a breadth of styles ranging from realism to Post-Impressionism, and later a folk art aesthetic that would...

Theodore Carter 12 February 2026

History

Jacob Lawrence and the Great Migration

As a child of the Great Migration, Jacob Lawrence was well placed to undertake such a mammoth task in detailing the journey from the rural South that...

Wendy Gray 12 February 2026

North American Art

The Bright Age of African-American Art: Harlem Renaissance in the US

In the first quarter of the 20th century, the Harlem region of New York City witnessed an unprecedented surge in artistic production. Known as the...

Merve Parla 12 February 2026

Contemporary Art

13 Black Folk Artists from the American South

The thirteen self-taught artists below, from Bill Traylor to Nellie Mae Rowe, Thornton Dial to Mary T. Smith, among others, created some of the most...

Adam Oestreich 12 February 2026

Women Artists

Augusta Savage: The Woman Who Defined 20th-Century Sculpture

Augusta Savage was a sculptress whose name is often missing from the list of illustrious Harlem Renaissance artists. Throughout her life, she merged...

Anastasia Tsaleza 12 February 2026

Carrie Mae Weems, Kitchen Table Series: Untitled (Woman and Daughter with Make-up), 1990. Photography

Masterpiece Series: Kitchen Table Series by Carrie Mae Weems

Artist Carrie Mae Weems was born in Portland, Oregon, USA. Now in her seventies, she is still actively working, and is considered one of America’s...

Candy Bedworth 1 February 2026