A self-initiated series of portrait illustrations shared during Women’s History Month celebrating trailblazing black women from our history.
Jackie Ormes is the first black female cartoonist to publish and syndicate her work. Her first strip Torchy Brown first appeared in the Pittsburg Courier in 1937.
Carrie Mae Weems is a multidisciplinary artist whose Kitchen Table series is one of my favorite bodies of work.
Grace Jones
Lois Mailou Jones
Gwendolyn Brooks
Florence Griffith Joyner AKA FloJo
Audre Lorde
Nina Simone