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BLAVITY
13 Incredible Black Artists, Past And Present, Everybody Should Know
Written by Marshall A. Latimore
On an unusually warm Saturday morning in an old church-turned-artists-haven, visual artists Charly Palmer and Jamaal Barber are wrapping several of their pieces in plastic wrap while talking about their creative process and what inspires their work. Both artists — Palmer, a painter, and Barber, a print maker — have multiple “Black History Month” shows throughout February. Barber has an exhibit titled “Bright Black” that opens Feb. 10 through Feb. 23 at the Southwest Arts Center. Palmer has an exhibit at the Auburn Avenue Research Library titled “Divided States,” that will open Feb. 18 through March 25.

BLACK ENTERPRISE
Artist Charly Palmer Talks The Business Of Black Art
Written by Ida Harris
Black art is big business, even as it sits at the fringes of a booming art industry. The mainstream art world is dominated by a more popular culture, which allows but a sliver of black talent to penetrate its space at a time. This unsurprising phenomena shadows some of the most incredible works produced in contemporary art, and the "remarkable artists" who create them. Respectively, Charly Palmer is one of them.
