While doing my residency @helloprintfriend in Chaing Mai, Thailand I created a series of small Linoleum Cuts which were in essence riffs, or sketches and reflections on home and other lands. I call this piece “Heart Beats.” The image is paying homage to the drum and the heartbeat of culture, generations, and communal rhythms. Even though the rhythm of Thailand was different there was a deep connectedness and kindred nature that I felt at home in. We experience culture and we spread it at the same time, I came fully as myself while being open, courteous, respectful of a space/place ancient and beautiful. My hosts @mirandakielland and @timpauszek_studio made the trip special and unforgettable. I look forward to returning one day. His dreadlocks bounce like an equalizer as the couple dance a jig old yet new in tune, can you feel it! #drums #motherland #thailand #chaingmai #kindred
I made this image for a client in Richmond, I call it, “Man-Whole”, graphite on paper. The image reveals multiple generations of men assisting one another, pulling brothers from the muck of the earth and restoring their strength reminding them whose they are, who they are, and where they are from. The manhole is a metaphor for rebirth and removing the veil of lies, deceit, misconception, damming constructions, and doubt from there beings and ushering them to a place of kindred, power, wisdom, purpose, and love. The thump of the talking drum provides cadence as hands signify praise, power, protection, guidance, and truth. The men are set free. #manhole #manwhole #liberation #freedom #manhood @bkfulton@stellajonesgallery@zucotgallery@justlookingallery@blackartinamerica_@thelmaharrisgallery@eotb_gallery@william_and_mary
A prayer for mothers:
O great mothers who carried generations in their wombs, and delivered life into a perilous world, whose arms lift, love, teach, train, and protect, may you continue to basque in the glory of your sacred endeavor of providing the world with your beauty and brilliance. Thank you for your life-force that is undeniable for this is a day we pause to lift you up and all the while you are uplifted eternally. May your blessings be magnified and your dreams manifest. Amen #mothersday❤️ #mama #love #faith #prayer
PLEASE VOTE, LINK in BIO! Artists, we create something from nothing, shaping and imbuing materials with new life and contextual meaning. The artist is like a conjurer, an alchemist of sorts, a special individual in the communal fabric that helps people to see and see differently. I chose this path at a young age, or maybe it chose me and I answered the calling, nonetheless I lay myself before the world like an open book, meant to be read like a living epistle. #peoplesartist2026 #printmaking #drawing #sculpture #community @justlookingallery@blackartinamerica_@zucotgallery@stellajonesgallery@thelmaharrisgallery@eotb_gallery
@onefishstudio ’s quick sketches are masterpieces! Check out this drawing of @mal.uncut
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#pendrawing #pensketch #757artist #illustration #portraitdrawing
Grateful for the recognition from @visitwilliamsburg , they gave me the 2026 Tourism Champion Award this morning for our collaborative work on the VA250 Americas Birthday Quilt Project. It is a privilege and an honor to be celebrated for the work you do in community, I offered this award up to my parents who instilled in me humility, love, and confidence that says I belong in every room I enter. I am encouraged and filled with fire to keep doing the work of the ancestors and entering spaces they dreamed of and sharing the truth with the hope that one day we will have equity. #truth #humility #peace #community #grace @colonialwmsburg@muscarellemuseum
I am pleased to announce that my work “Native Tongue,” was selected for an Honorable Mention Award in the 2026 Engage Art Competition. The image Native Tongue reveals the multilayered power of the Black church as a depository of faith, history, community, perseverance, power, knowledge, resistance, strategy, edification, fortification, and forgiveness. The enduring power of the sanctuary reveals a group of people who faithfully return to the well to receive the life-giving Living Water and train up a new generation to build, imagine, and BE. Thank you to the organization and the judges that saw something special in my work that needed to be shared. I consider it a privilege and an honor to have the work recognized and supported. If interested in acquiring my work, DM me or reach out to one of my gallery supporters. We as an ecosystem support each other to thrive in the marketplace and share the truth. @engageartcontest@zucotgallery@stellajonesgallery@blackartinamerica_@justlookingallery@eotb_gallery@kalaartinstitute #praise #faith #community #native #peace
Incredible storytelling by artist Steve Prince @onefishstudio at the latest Show and Tell at @a.c.e.us
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2026 Grantee Spotlight: Steve Prince
The Kitchen Table Talk project is a multi-disciplinary initiative that reimagines the kitchen as a vital communal sanctuary for cross-cultural connection and reconciliation. By moving beyond the social "silos" of race, class, and ethnicity, the project interrogates the kitchen's from storytelling and maturation to disagreement and healing.
#artistspotlight, #sacredart, #artistsandfaith, #creo, #reconciliation
Nativity
Graphite on Panel, 12” Diameter x 1/8”
Nativity by definition is the occasion of a person’s birth. The image reveals the sacredness of human creation, every mother is essentially Mary and every child is Christ. We are born into a perilous, complicated, complex, yet beautiful world. The mother’s gaze is loving and pensive, while the child beams with joy and innocence. The circular format amplifies the circle of life, the birth cycles of women, and the effects of the moon upon fertility. #24hoursofwonder @lbajuyo #nativity #motherandchild #sacred #motherhood @livingarts_tulsa
Melanie: Cycle VI, Graphite on Paper, 3’ x 5’. By definition the name Melanie means blackness. Several years ago while I was doing a residency at the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria, Virginia in came one of my former students from Hampton University. She walked in the room with a radiant glow and time collapsed and I remembered the inquisitive student she was, always embracing the arts and never shying away from the rigor. In walked a mother, a wife, a sister, a daughter, a woman, full of joy and confidence from life experience. I asked her if I could take her picture and add her to my series called Cycles, she obliged. She wrapped her arms around herself and exhaled, click. Her posture signified freedom and self love. But I was reminded of a woman named Harriet Jacobs, whose pen name was Linda Brent and wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Brent hid in the attic space of her grandmothers house for 7 years escaping the overtures of her slave master. To see this contemporary young Black woman free and loving the skin she is in was refreshing. I know the extraordinary journey of Black women is ongoing, but as Maya Angelou so eloquently stated, “and still I (she) rise(s).” Amen @_hamptonu@xula1925@michiganstateu@william_and_mary #blackness #lindabrent #mayaangelouquotes @torpedofactory@theartleague #drawing
Flambeau, Linoleum Cut on Paper, 24” x 24”. I made this image not long after my mother passed away on Father’s Day, in 2008. The image portrays a woman leading a Second Line march down the streets of New Orleans. The Flambeau, or fire carriers, were typically Black men who were employed to carry kerosene lanterns to light the night parades such as the Endymion and the Bacchus parades. When the battery powered light was invented, they were essentially kicked to the curb. Splinter groups have risen and continue the tradition. Many people have mixed feelings about the legacy of the flame carriers because it was considered to be a menial job. I lift them up, because they too carry my mother’s spirit, they did what they had to do to live, love, and protect family that did not involve robbing someone else of their possessions. For all who have a Flambeau spirit, continue to make a way, out of no way and light the path for the next generation to have greater access and a heart and mind to remember to remember. Amen. #flambeau #neworleans #mardigrasparade #secondline #horsemen @stellajonesgallery@justlookingallery@blackartinamerica_@zucotgallery@thelmaharrisgallery@eye_of_the_beholder_gallery
