PERSONAL PROJECTS

Recent Work

  • Pura Belpre

    PERSONAL

    Pura Belpre was a legend in education and literacy. She pioneered bilingual education, theater, book mobile, and so many more...

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  • Marley Dias

    PERSONAL

    This was drawn this year as yet another piece for my series celebrating women called “Who is She?”. This young...

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  • Emily Pilloton

    PERSONAL

    Emily is an architect/designer from the Bay Area who founded a non profit organization teaching building, design, and architecture to young...

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  • Keiko Fukuda

    PERSONAL

    Keiko was the highest ranking woman in Judo. She was one of many women I drew this year for a...

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  • Gaspar Yanga

    PERSONAL

    Gaspar or “El Yanga” was a maroon who fought back against slavery and colonization in Veracruz Mexico. He is an...

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  • Blake Brockington

    PERSONAL

    Blake was a trans teen activist I painted for the 2016 “Black is Beautiful” series celebrating Black History Month in...

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  • Steve Muhammad

    PERSONAL

    Steve Muhammad is a martial artist who founded the Black Karate Foundation, he is another person I painted for the...

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  • Toni Stone

    PERSONAL

    Toni Stone was the first woman to play professional baseball in the Negro Leagues and this image was created as part...

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  • John Trudell

    Portraits

    I first heard John Trudell talking on a cassette tape in my cousin’s car driving through Berkeley. Later I would...

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  • Ramona Africa

    Portraits

    Ramona is one of the only surviving children of the organization known as Move in Philadelphia. Their house was bombed...

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  • Rainy Milo

    Music

    I gotta give it up to Tall Black Guy because without his remixes I would not have heard about this...

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  • My Dancing Lion

    Short Stories

    I’ve exhibited this painting at The Restoration Center in Brooklyn and the African American Cultural Center in San Francisco. I...

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  • Afternoon Dancer

    Short Stories

    This afternoon uncle and I went for a walk. Everyone was resting during the early afternoon so we decided to...

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  • Fannie Lou Hamer

    Portraits

    Fannie Lou Hamer was a civil and voting rights activist in Mississippi at a time when Black folks were not...

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  • Moses Sumney

    Music

    I think it was Valerie Troutt who reblogged one of Moses Sumney’s songs, “Dwell in the Dark“; as soon as I heard...

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  • Reading

    PERSONAL

    This is the first in a series of poster illustrations I’d like to do on the topic of reading and...

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  • People over Profit

    B/W

    This is an illustration i created for a campaign Culture Strike lead in support of striking Walmart workers.

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  • Shirley Chisolm

    B/W

    I created this Black and white ink drawing of Shirley Chisolm for Bryant Terry’s book “The Inspired Vegan” out on...

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  • Afro Pick

    B/W

    I drew this for fun, just trying out an idea for a child with Afro Puffs and a very old...

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