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Thank you for sharing my month of beauty, strength, and the history that is Black History Month 2025. These artists are amazing!

Njideka Akunyili Crosby (born 1983) is a Nigerian-born visual artist. Her work bridges aspects between her adopted home in America and her native Nigeria, creating collage and photo transfer-based paintings that expose the challenges of occupying these two worlds.

Nina Chanel Abney (born 1982) is an American artist and painter who explores race, gender, pop culture, homophobia, and politics in her work. Her style of painting is mostly graphic, cubist, and color blocked paintings and murals.

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (born 1977) is a British painter and writer. She is best known for her portraits. The dark palette of her work is known for creating a feeling of stillness that keeps her subjects from being associated with a particular decade or time.

Laura Wheeler Waring (1887 – 1948) was an American artist and educator, most renowned for her realistic portraits, landscapes, still-life, and well-known African American portraitures she made during the Harlem Renaissance.

Jordan Casteel (born 1989) is an American figurative painter. She typically paints portraits of friends and family members as well as neighbors and strangers in Harlem and New York. Throughout her collection the viewer can observe a wealth of colors representing the skin tones of her subjects.

Torkwase Dyson (born 1973) is an interdisciplinary artist. She describes the themes of her work as "architecture, infrastructure, environmental justice, and abstract drawing.” Her work is informed by her own theory of Black Compositional Thought.