Damond Howard
A graduate of South Carolina State University (B.S. Art Education) and University of Florida (M.F.A. Studio Art), Damond Howard is an artist who combines art and history in unique ways. His interest and experience in African-American culture is distinguishable in his figurative drawings. His drawings explore issues of identity and subjecthood of these experiences. Among the many venues, Howard’s drawings have been exhibited at the Hammonds House Galleries and Resource Center for African American Art (Atlanta), The College of Wooster Art Museum (Ohio), MOJA Arts Festival (Charleston, South Carolina), Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago, Illinois), and solo exhibitions at Berea College (Kentucky) and Lyon College (Arkansas). Recently, Howard contributed a biography on renowned South Carolina artist Leo Twiggs to the Harvard University’s African American National Biography, published by Oxford University Press (2008). Howard’s writing and drawings about his own work have been featured in Envisioning, a journal produced by Binghamton University (New York). Additionally, he has contributed illustrations to a PBS documentary on slain Civil Rights activist Harry T. Moore. Howard is currently an assistant professor of art at Claflin University in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
Alicia Henry
Alicia Henry received her B.F.A. degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her M.F.A. degree from Yale University. Henry has received numerous grants and awards from various foundations, for example, the Ford Foundation, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. She has had exhibitions at Cheekwood Museum, and the Frist Center for the Visual Arts among others. Henry is an associate professor of art at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee.
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February 6 - 28, 2009
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