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  1. How Nature Transforms Creative Minds by Shenny de Los Angeles, Image 1.

    Shenny de Los Angeles

    How Nature Transforms Creative Minds, 2026

    Video

  2. Everglades Inspiration by Nathaniel Sandler, Image 1.

    Nathaniel Sandler

    Everglades Inspiration, 2025

    Video

  3. ‘RTMGFEBS’ (Remembering the Maroon, Gullah, Formerly Enslaved, Black Seminole) by Charles Humes Jr., Image 1.

    Charles Humes Jr.

    ‘RTMGFEBS’ (Remembering the Maroon, Gullah, Formerly Enslaved, Black Seminole), 2025

    Charcoal, Graphite, Collage on Paper

    82 x 52 in

  4. AIRIE.Foundation Commission - 2024 Smithsonian Design Triennial Soundscape for "Ebb + Flow" by Atéha "Jojo Sounds" Bailly, Image 1.

    Atéha "Jojo Sounds" Bailly

    AIRIE.Foundation Commission - 2024 Smithsonian Design Triennial Soundscape for "Ebb + Flow", 2024

    Soundscape

  5. Florida's vital challenge: to save the Everglades by Bill Maxwell, Image 1.

    Bill Maxwell

    Florida's vital challenge: to save the Everglades, 2014

    Article

  6. Florida Everglades Study by Krista Elrick, Image 1.

    Krista Elrick

    Florida Everglades Study, 2012

    Archival Digital Print

    14 x 19.5 in

  7. Pa Hay Okee Orange by Susan Klein, Image 1.

    Susan Klein

    Pa Hay Okee Orange, 2005

    Acrylic on Canvas

    19 x 49 in

  8. Smooth-billed Ani in Cypress Tree by George Forrest, Image 1.

    George Forrest

    Smooth-billed Ani in Cypress Tree, 2003

    11.5 x 7.5 in

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About the artist

Charles Humes Jr.

Miami-born, Charles Humes Jr. comes from a rich family heritage of the Grand Turks, Exuma and Eleuthera Islands of the Bahamas. A nationally acclaimed painter, printmaker, draftsman and educator. Humes' early expressions found a voice championing the plight of the homeless, urban conditions and stereotypes predicated on socio-political, educational, economic prejudices, and bigotry. Humes Jr. has received many national and regional awards for his signature depictions of the African-American condition. His studies include Florida State University, Florida International University and Miami-Dade Community College, earning arts degrees in painting, printmaking and arts education. A recipient of the State of Florida Individual Arts Grant in painting, A Smithsonian Southern Arts Fellowship Printmaking Fellow, a Bakehouse Residency Award, a Visual Arts Scholar and Residency at The University of Miami’s Center for Global Black Studies and most recently an Ellies Creator Award Recipient and a Oolite Home And Away Mass MoCa Residency. Humes Jr. paintings and drawings have been exhibited in galleries, universities and museums throughout the United States and most recently completed a solo exhibition entitled MOTIC an acronym for ‘Matters of the Inner-city’ at the Miami International Airport Concourse D, March through September 2023.
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