"I am an Artist, Educator, Documentarian, and founder of the Chop Shop Collective. My work is reflective of my thoughts and feelings about interactions and identity in Black America, focusing on stereotypes of African American Masculinity and Femineity within the paradigm of the African American Community."
www.stevenmcozart.com

Associate Professor of Graphic Design in the Visual Arts Program of North Carolina A&T State University. He graduated with a MFA from Pennsylvania State University and a BFA in Art at Virginia Commonwealth University. Having studied and worked in fashion art, design and advertising practices he often draws from his graphic design background for inspiration. His work uses a mixture of digital and hand techniques including collage, calligraphy, drawing, xerography, stenciling and typography.
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"I immerse myself in arranging, pasting, looking, splashing, marking, touching, trusting, connecting, referencing and most important – “not-knowing.” Art is the language between thought, matter and form. Art is evidence of thinking without the use of language; an iterative state of mind. When I make art, I am perpetually in a state of heightened awareness. I welcome the vulnerability to all that exists beyond what I know and the challenge of reconfiguring what I know into what I cannot recognize. Patience with process is how I subject myself to the notion that anything – any moment, any configuration of matter and material is ripe as the source for a new visual aesthetic."
bboothe.cas.lehigh.edu/

Chris Clark is a self-taught visual artist, illustrator, and muralist living and working in Jacksonville, Florida. Art, to him, is a form of journalism. Using acrylic, oil, ink, and spray paint, he explores the rich culture and history of the Black community across the diaspora and the social issues affecting them today. For Clark, reflecting the human figure is very powerful, which is why he uses graphic-style portraiture and figurative works to depict Black life in America through his personal lens of a Black man. At the core of his work is the notion that representation matters. As the artist explains, “By telling my story, I want to help the viewer rediscover theirs.”

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"Since 1992, my art has been based on the relationship between sight sound and color which deals with music from the African American community such as jazz, rap, hip hop, gospel, and blues. Thus, my work is rooted in a place of targeted tragedy. Its curvilinear twists, knots, and loops are fed by the energy found in the souls of ALL those who toil and triumph everyday against the odds and against the unheralded tragedies of life.  My work is a universal story with both hero and villain, good and evil.   The narrative is embedded like html code. It is not visible to the eye, but it can be decoded..."
https://www.kevinecoleart.com/

"The past few years, my work has grown more concerned with climate change and the environment, and what we leave for future generations. My use of different materials, from charcoal, to torn paper, found objects, and natural elements like tree limbs, serve to depict people as complexly on the canvas as we exist in the world. My use of materials and how I blur the lines between figurative, realism, and afrofuturism are a way to remind the viewer that it's our collectivity that places the impossible within our reach."
https://www.tyronegeter.com/

Stephen L. Hayes, Jr. makes art—woodcuts, sculptures, installations small and large—from found materials that draw on social and economic themes ingrained in the history of America and African-Americans. His approach is simple: “If I can’t find it, I’ll make it. If I can’t make it, I’ll find it.”
www.stephenhayescreations.com

"Using painting as my primary tool of communication, I make work examining my identity as a Black American man, husband and father; creating compositions documenting my life experiences and examining how the media is used to inform, misinform and shape the perception of Black Americans and our collective culture. Much of my work is influenced by my memories which serve as a database filled with television shows, movies, music, and pop-culture that become metaphors and/or references used in my compositions."
www.clarenceheyward.com/

"My current projects are part of a process of exploration for me as a Black man of faith, in discovering my own continued relationship with Christianity, while also coming to terms with my dismay about the indifference of many in the American Evangelical Christian community on racism, injustice, and suffering in Black and Brown communities. My goal as an artist is to simplify the larger problematic structures of inequality in society, in an effort to inspire new ways of framing history, offer a new and humanizing lens through which we can collectively understand and mourn the victims of an unjust society, and provide opportunities for discussion and reconciliation."
www.imoimeh.com

Jalen Jackson is a visual artist whose paintings explore African American culture, collective memory, and experiences. His paintings depict flashbacks of his childhood and other memories, especially growing up as a son of a single mother.  Jackson began college as a Business Management student at North Carolina A&T University. During his junior year, he signed up for a painting class and rediscovered his love for art he has fostered as an African American child growing up in Durham, NC. 
www.jalentjackson.com

Gordon C. James’ chosen artistic genre has its roots in Impressionism.  The art of John Singer Sargent, Nicholai Fechin, Henry Ossawa Tanner, and many others inspired James to pursue a style that is both academic and expressive. As a result his work contains a lyricism not often found in contemporary art.   Be it through the sensitivity found in his romantic pieces, or commitment to excellence in his commercial work, James always connects with his viewer.  He says of his work, “When people see my art I want them to say, I know that person, I know that feeling.”
www.gordoncjames.com

Percy King is a former professional football player who made the transformation to a culturally inspired, full-time artist through determination, talent and moments of pure inspiration along the way. His journey from a highly motivated team-sport athlete to artist, working today in what he describes as traditional "Shaolin" wood-working techniques, and his passion to connect his own history to the larger African-American experience, has produced his signature style and a unique story to share with the world. 
www.instagram.com/artbypercy

"My artwork centers on my African-American lineage, which is traced back to sharecroppers of the American South who migrated to Northern cities along the East Coast. My pictorial narratives are personal, yet the symbols I use are universal and interplay with larger social, racial, ancestral, economic, and political histories that inform our nation to this day. The history of my family is the history of black Americans, which is the history of all of North America. "
www.ransomeart.com/

JaJa Swinton is an artist, husband, father, and writer on a spiritual journey with The Most High. Highly skilled in his practice, Swinton has contributed to such projects as "The Black Intellectual Tradition", a powerful legacy of classical education among Black intellectuals and teachers in America.
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MIGZ is an art educator in NYC public schools since 2013, as well as a portrait and figure artist and tattoo artist since 2012. Born in Long Island, NY, he holds a BFA from SUNY Purchase, an M.S. Ed from Long Island University, and a Graduate Certificate in Art History from Lindenwood University. MIGZ's work spans a variety of mediums but consistently focuses on capturing the emotion and spirit of the human figure and portraiture. His artwork has been exhibited in prestigious institutions, including Lincoln Center and the Hammer Museum.
https://www.migztorres.com/

Bryan's dedication to his craft is evidenced by his education and exhibition track record. After obtaining his MFA he has studied with renowned artists such as Sean Cheetham, Jas Knight, and David Kassan. In addition to their remarkable artistic skills, Bryan has demonstrated a commitment to community engagement and support for fellow artists. Their participation in projects such as the “ArtPop StreetGallery” and receiving grants like the Helpful Unfettered Gifts (HUG Grant) through Charlotte is Creative reflect their dedication to fostering a vibrant art community. Based in Charlotte, NC, he is now exhibiting throughout the US and abroad alongside other distinguished artists. 
https://www.bryanwilsonstudios.com/