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  1. Seminola by Charles Humes Jr., Image 15.

    Charles Humes Jr.

    Seminola, 2025

    Watercolor on Watercolor Paper

    18 x 24 in

  2. Queen of the Swamp: The Saltwater Railroad by Sydney Rose Maubert, Image 1.

    Sydney Rose Maubert

    Queen of the Swamp: The Saltwater Railroad, 2024

    Digital Collage

  3. Peace by Piece by Maya Freelon, Image 1.

    Maya Freelon

    Peace by Piece, 2024

    Dyed Tissue Paper

    144 x 72 in

  4. Spanish Moss Yellow by Diana Eusebio, Image 1.

    Diana Eusebio

    Spanish Moss Yellow, 2023

    Digitally Printed Photograph on Dyed Cotton

    6 x 4 in

  5. Back Roads to Far Towns by Harumi Abe, Image 1.

    Harumi Abe

    Back Roads to Far Towns, 2020

    Acryla gouache and acrylic on canvas

    66 x 52 in

  6. Waiting on the Wet Season by Anne Jennings Paris, Image 1.

    Anne Jennings Paris

    Waiting on the Wet Season, 2017

    Poetry

  7. Charting Porous Borders by Sara Beth Rabinowitz, Image 1.

    Sara Beth Rabinowitz

    Charting Porous Borders, 2017

    Embroidery on Linen

    30 x 20 in

  8. Pahayokee by Harumi Abe, Image 1.

    Harumi Abe

    Pahayokee, 2013

    Acrylic and Oil on Board

    24 x 24 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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