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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. Cornelius Tulloch on "Elements of Being" at Venice as part of Personal Structures, hosted by the ECC by Cornelius Tulloch, Image 1.

    Cornelius Tulloch

    Cornelius Tulloch on "Elements of Being" at Venice as part of Personal Structures, hosted by the ECC, 2024

    Video

  3. GW by Charles Humes Jr., Image 9.

    Charles Humes Jr.

    GW, 2024

    Acrylic, Oil, Collage on Canvas

    16 x 42 in

  4. Fond Memories of Foliage by Khari Turner, Image 1.

    Khari Turner

    Fond Memories of Foliage, 2024

    36 x 24 in

  5. Everglades Songbook Suite by Jose Elias, Image 1.

    Jose Elias

    Everglades Songbook Suite, 2021

    Live Music

  6. The Nature of Things by Keren Anavy, Tal Frank, Image 1.

    Keren Anavy, Tal Frank

    The Nature of Things, 2018

    Color on Alokobond

    16 x 20 in

  7. When by Hannah Star Rogers, Image 1.

    Hannah Star Rogers

    When, 2016

    Viewfinder Reel with Seven Slides (Images and a Poem)

    4 x 5 x 3 in

  8. Quilt Painting, AIRIE 3 by Regina Jestrow, Image 1.

    Regina Jestrow

    Quilt Painting, AIRIE 3, 2015

    Watercolor, Gouache, Acrylic on Gessoed Panel

    36 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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