My final essay (and illustration) is up on “the artblog.” I thank everyone I have ever met through my art writing journey on this platform. It was nice to have a comforting home to promote the underrepresented artists, writers, filmmakers, etc. 🌹 www.theartblog.org/2025/05/the-... #art #artwriting

“I began drawing at the age of three.… my studio was under my bed. I never had any doubt in my mind about being an artist.”— the late painter/illustrator/sculptor/assemblage artist Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson born on this day in 1940 blackwomenmakeart.blogspot.com/2020/04/amin... #blacksky

“Painting is a lot harder than pickin' cotton. Cotton's right there for you to pull off the stalk, but to paint, you got to sweat your mind.”— Clementine Hunter, African American self-taught painter (ca.1886/1887-1988)

“There are historical references in my work… race, stereotyping, identity, racial profiling. It is about home. It links to things that happen globally. It is looking at drawing.”— Barbara Walker, Turner Prize-nominated draftswoman currently working in Birmingham, UK. www.barbarawalker.co.uk

Black Women Make Art is an ongoing database of global Black women visual artists, past and present, working in painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, video, etc. This archive acts as a historical resource that keeps their underrepresented work in dialogue. blackwomenmakeart.blogspot.com?m=1