The Colors of Life: African American Abstract Art and the Regathering of Community

Friday, Jun 2, 2023 from 10:00am to 5:00pm
Northwest African American Museum
2300 South Massachusetts Street
206- 518- 6000

Showcasing abstract art featuring the works of Northwest artists: Vincent Keele, Shantell Jackson, Lo Mar Metoyer, and Yeggy Michael.

About the Artists :  

Shantell Jackson

Shantell Jackson is a multidisciplinary artist who currently resides in Spokane, WA.  She creates in process. Each piece or creative journey starts internally and flows outward to create colorful, rhythmic, and textural work.

She also draws inspiration from her community-based work and as a writer. Her aim is to combine her disciplines to create installations and performance art pieces. She explores the human condition through her art.

She hopes to create dialogue across differences, build bridges, evoke curiosity, and forge acceptance and healing.

LoMar a.k.a Lo Metoyer

LoMar Metoyer is a Seattle-based artist who has worked in the behavioral health field with those experiencing homelessness and diagnosed with mental illnesses. After embarking on her own journey to genuine self-love, she realized her true love for art.

To share her knowledge and creations with others, she opened her business, Lo Mar's Art by Lo Metoyer. Her work intertwines science, self-love, and art. She is an abstract artist who holds a B.S. in Neuroscience & Cognitive Science and a B.S. in Psychology.

She lives her life outside of the box and follows her heart with passion, courage, and unconditional love.

Vincent Keele

Vincent Keele is a Seattle-based, self-taught artist. His passion for art began very early. His mother, Mary M. Scott, an alumni of the Art Institute of Chicago passed on to him her complete course of books.

With these materials, he learned to see and produce art in a wide variety of methods. His work uses bold, colorful, and rhythmic movements to create abstract expressionist artworks and symbolic figurative works. 

He uses various fields from traditional to contemporary to portray his visual narratives. Keele's work has been showcased in numerous countries around the world  and explores abstract expressionist forms and symbolic figures.

Keele benefited from great mentors along the way. He is a self-taught artist with traditional education from Platt College where he studied Graphic Arts and Drafting.

Yeggy Michael

Yegizaw Yeggy Michael is a Seattle-based visual artist. His professional life has focused on painting, sculpture, mosaic, and public art.

While exhibiting widely throughout Africa, Europe and the US , he has also won several commissioned works, grants, and private collections.

Yeggy's vision as an artist is to provoke questions about natural cycles, provide a sense of place, and reflect on the movement of time.

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