Nellie Mae Rowe

A creative and resourceful self-taught artist, Nellie Mae Rowe gained national recognition for her work during the last decade of her life.

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Teresita Fernández

Teresita Fernández, recipient of a 2005 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, is a sculptor and visual artist whose works—often large in scale and inspired by landscape and natural phenomena—explore issues of perception and seeing.

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Beverly Buchanan

Beverly Buchanan found her calling as an artist after pursuing a career in health education and realizing that she wanted to express the images, stories, and architecture of her African American childhood.

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