Liz grew up very excited about art and creativity. As a child, she taught herself to paint portraits and make quite elaborate decorative designs out of simple materials like glass, textiles, paper and even tooth picks. Her love for art led to a study at the University of Maiduguri in Nigeria, where she graduated with […]

Nell Painter (the painter formerly known as the historian Nell Irvin Painter, author of The History of White People, Sojourner Truth, A Life, A Symbol, and Creating Black Americans and the Edwards Professor of American History, Emerita, Princeton University) lives and works in Newark, New Jersey. My work carries discursive as well as visual meaning, […]