About Angela

My work explores the beauty and relationships to African art, culture, fragments, symbols, and markings.

I always knew I wanted to be an artist. My creative journey began very early. My mother was also an artist and supported my interest in the arts. Dance and music lessons, art museums, and stage plays filled our weekends. Those memories fill my heart and keep me going—she inspired me to be a free spirit and follow my dreams.

My love of the African aesthetic and deep desire to connect with my ancestral creative heritage intuitively guides my creative journey. My work explores the beauty and meaning of symbols and patterns. Recreating and reconstructing a visual narrative that celebrates and explores a lost connection to my ancestry is at the heart of my work. From my earliest watercolor portraits of Africans and African-Americans to the abstract reconstructions of patterns and symbols, the central theme of my art is discovering the African diaspora.

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A fine artist of works in mixed media, Angela exhibits in Chicago-area juried art show galleries. She received a BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago with a concentration in Visual Communications.

Her fine art work is in the permanent collection of the Noyes Cultural Arts Center in Evanston, Illinois and in the homes of many art collectors and enthusiasts.