My current series, Women of Color and Accomplishment, was started as a result of my research into the BLM movement in 2020. Learning about many Black women who had done incredible things despite major obstacles, I decided to honor those women by painting their portraits. Women of Color and Accomplishment (Book One) is available on online and at my studio. It contains 31 portraits and brief bios.
Women of Color and Accomplishment: Fighting for Equality was published in October, 2022 with 30 additional portraits and bios of historical Black women of achievement. This book is available online or at my studio. Here are a few of the women who are in this book.
Alice Ball
Juliette Derricott
bell hooks
Constance Baker Motley
Elizabeth Jennings Graham
Fannie Wall
Ida B. Wells
Barbara Johns
Mary Jane Patterson
Mary Shadd Cary
Mary Church Terrell
Phillis Wheatly
Coretta King
Maria P. Williams
Nina Simone
Lydia Flood Jackson
Anna Douglass
Earth and Clara White 2
Anna Mangin
Elizabeth Eckford
click on ‘bio’ above each name to go to a page about each woman
Ruby Bridges
Dot Counts
Elizabeth Eckford
Ida Rollins
Maggie Walker
bio
Anna Julia Cooper
Ella Sheppard
Diane Nash, 2021, Acrylic on Canvas, 24 x 30 in.
