Membership
Membership is open to African American artists of all disciplines.
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Founding Members
Congressman Emanuel Cleaver ll, Nedra Bonds, Gerald Dunn,
Diallo Javonne French, Glenn North, Jason Piggie,
Sonié Joi Thompson-Ruffin
Advisory Council
Charles Bibbs - Internationally Acclaimed Visual Artist, Entrepreneur, and Philanthropist
Congressman Emanuel Cleaver II - 5th Congressional District and Methodist Minister
Najee Dorsey - Mixed Media Artist, Collector and Founder Black Art In America
Ed Dwight - Master Sculptor, Historian, Pilot, and 1st African American Astronaut candidate
Dean Mitchell - National Award Winning Figurative (Watercolor & Oil) Painter
Jacob Wagner, Ph.D.- Urban Planning & Design and UNESCO Representative
Maurice A. Watson - Husch Blackwell Law Firm
Julián Zugazagoitia - CEO and Director of the Nelson -Atkins Museum of Art
Active Members
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Tyrone Aiken (choreographer | educator)
Damron Russel Armstrong (actor | director)
J Leroy Beasley (painter | sculptor)
Michelle Beasley (painter)
Dina Bennett, Ph.D. (curator | educator)
Nedra Bonds (textiles)
Renee Blanche (performer)
Muriel Boyd (arts education)
Michael Brantley (painter | framer)
Taylor Brown (spoken word)
Ramona Davis (curator | graphic designer
Gerald Dunn (musician)
Shawn Edwards (film critic | producer)
Everette Freeman (musician | composer)
Xavier Gayden (illustrator)
Juliette Hemingway (digital artist)
Joycelynn Heard (painter)
Anthony High (painter arts educator)
Robert Hale (photographer)
Diallo Javonne French (photographer | film maker)
Kim Jones (choreographer)
Charles "Swavy" Jones (painter)
Clarissa Knighten (jewelry designer)
Kreshaun McKinney (arts education)
Hermon Mehari (musician)
Tracy Milsap (storyteller | performer)
Sheri Mirador( jewelry / clothing designer)
Eddie Moore (musician | educator)
Carlos Nelson (Cascade Media)
Glenn A. North (poet)
Kim Newton (textile)
Joseph A. Newton (digital painting)
Joseph T. Newton (painter)
Michael Patton (poet)
Jason Piggie (photographer | filmmaker)
Tony Ramos (painter)
Harold Smith (painter | filmmaker)
David Stevens (photographer)
Sonié Joi Thompson-Ruffin (textiles | author | curator)
Michael Toombs (painter | arts educator)
Alton Webb (painter)
Michael Warren (musician | educator)
Jason Wilcox (painter)
Dr. Jacqueline Wood, Ph.D. (professor | poet)