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  1. Everglades Inspiration by Nathaniel Sandler, Image 1.

    Nathaniel Sandler

    Everglades Inspiration, 2025

    Video

  2. ‘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

  3. Everglades Undone by Meg Ojala, Image 1.

    Meg Ojala

    Everglades Undone, 2024

    Inkjet

    29.75 x 22 in

  4. Cross-Pollination by Juraj Kojs, Yukio Suzuki, Image 1.

    Juraj Kojs, Yukio Suzuki

    Cross-Pollination, 2021

    Dance

    23 Minutes

  5. Everglades Burnt Pineland/Stump III by Nick Gilmore, Image 1.

    Nick Gilmore

    Everglades Burnt Pineland/Stump III, 2017

    Pine Char on Rives de Lin Paper

    21 x 26 in

  6. Poetry Submission by Mary Kate Azcuy, Image 1.

    Mary Kate Azcuy

    Poetry Submission, 2010

    Poetry

  7. Flamingo by Charles Baroody, Image 1.

    Charles Baroody

    Flamingo, 2003

    Acrylic on Paper

    15 x 11 in

  8. The Florida Panther Graphite by Ron Morosan, Image 1.

    Ron Morosan

    The Florida Panther Graphite, 2002

    Graphite on Paper

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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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