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  1. Moving through the landscape by The Honourable Elizabeth A. Baker, Image 1.

    The Honourable Elizabeth A. Baker

    Moving through the landscape, 2025

    Video

  2. Flamingo Echo by Harumi Abe, Image 1.

    Harumi Abe

    Flamingo Echo, 2025

    Acryla gouache and acrylic on canvas

  3. Untitled by Dale Andree, Image 1.

    Dale Andree

    Untitled, 2018

    Still of Dance on Board

    12 x 18 in

  4. Loggerhead Sea Turtle - Textures of the Everglades by Eileen Powell, Image 1.

    Eileen Powell

    Loggerhead Sea Turtle - Textures of the Everglades, 2012

    Clay

    22 x 16.5 in

  5. Opera by Ruth Ava Lyons, Image 1.

    Ruth Ava Lyons

    Opera, 2011

    Acrylic on Wrapped Canvas

    12 x 12 in

  6. Unknown by Mary Garrish, Image 1.

    Mary Garrish

    Unknown, 2010

    Oil on Wood

    12 x 16 in

  7. High Tide II Florida Bay by Donna Marxer, Image 1.

    Donna Marxer

    High Tide II Florida Bay, 2002

    Oil on Paper

    30 x 22 in

  8. Panther Encounter by Onajide Shabaka, Image 1.

    Onajide Shabaka

    Panther Encounter

    Photograph

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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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