When invited into the Sister Circle-Dandelions - “Dandi9” to join a special book-share, I pondered the mission: Project 2020! It sounded like an opportunity to respond, vent, and medicate myself with Art. It ended up being so much more.
During the 1980’s pen and ink drawings became my signature work. Beginning with illustrations for “An Ebony Woman Poem” the work morphed into Kwanzaa cards and later, note cards.
Ancestral Colors bring healing. They open the door to explore the many ways people cope or comprehend death as well as the diversity and links in funerary traditions.
My mother, Ann Stewart Dickerson, and I embarked on a mission to put a little spice in everyone’s life—BROWN SPICES was born October 2, 1979. The dolls and dudes were inspired by my daughter.
