Artist, Sculptors, Photographers
& Painters 

Addison Scurlock was an African American photographer.

Photo Credit: Congresswoman Alma S. Adams. Taken at the 1991 opening of The African American Atelier, INC Art Gallery in Greensboro, NC

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Facing Their Ancestral Legacy: The Pottery of Ben Watford and Jim McDowell
By Michael Ausbon, Curator of Decorative Arts for the North Carolina Museum of History

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Charles Alston-Painter-Sculptor, Illustrator, Muralist-Teacher And A Member Of The Harlem Renaissance Artists Group.

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Photograph: Mooresville, NC native, Artist/Sculptor/Educator Dr. Selma Burke won a competition to create a relief sculpture of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1943.

Dr. Tamara Holmes Brothers Named Deputy Director Of The NC Arts Council
May 5, 2020

Ed Wilson was an African American sculptor, and was known for figurative works that are typically created in metal.

Painting - "Friendly Friendship Baptist Church"

Painting - "The North Carolina Roots of Artist Ernie Barnes"

Ernie Barnes credits his mother not only with guiding him toward formal scholastic education but also with being the source of his internal psychological balance that gave him the scope to excel as an artist. Time and time again, Barnes names emotional insight as the key to artistic greatness.

Born and raised in Durham, North Carolina, Ernie Barnes is the artist behind the iconic image, "The Sugar Shack," featured on the series, Good Times, and Marvin Gaye's album, "I Want You!"-Image: The Sugar Shack. Copyright © Ernie Barnes Family Trust

Ernie Barnes is one of the best known African American artists. He played professional football before devoting himself to art. He gained national and international popularity with his painting "Sugar Shack" which appeared on the television show "Good Times" and a Marvin Gaye album. Today, his ‘mannerist’ painting style has been copied by numerous young Black artists.

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Jamaal Barber-printmaker from Littleton, North Carolina Influenced by Elizabeth Cattlett.

John Biggers was a muralist who came to prominence after the Harlem Renaissance and toward the end of World War II.

Self-Portrait

"Roll Jordan Roll" -1930 Oil on canvas 38 1/8 x 30 1/8 inches

She is known as a southern folk artist and as a surrealist and visionary artist as well.

She died in 1987, but her work is so connected with the site that local artists created a memorial sculpture garden within Airlie in her honor.

Minnie Evans Garden Chapel

"I have no imagination. I never plan a drawing, they just happen. In a dream it was shown to me what I have to do, of paintings.

The paintings and drawings of Minnie Evans depict scenes from the artist's private dream world.

Sculptor and educator who received national recognition for her relief portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, which was the model for his image on the dime.

Selma Burke - sculptor

Tarish Jeghetto Pipkins, is a puppeteer, social activist, artist, and a story teller

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The Gifted Hands Of Sculptor William Artis

Untitled (Idealized Head of a Woman)

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