Black Artists on Instagram

This last week was filled with so many inspiring, helpful, saddening, important, uplifting, creative, and maddening posts and stories. We can’t believe how many people suddenly started educating themselves. We hope everyone will keep this up.

We believe that supporting Black artists is one way to support the Black community. Thanks to our awesome virtual community, we were directed to fantastic BIPoC artists who present their work on Instagram. Today, we would like to share three incredible Black artists we found on Instagram:

Pretty In Ink Press © beautifully illustrates Black people, mostly womxn. Her illustrations are colorful and portray each person in a powerful way. It's hard to settle on one, but we think her illustration of Amorous Ebony might be our favorite one.

Artist (and writer) Autumn Joi paints amazing portraits (mostly) of Black people that we simply love. The paintings transport so much emotion even though we sometimes cannot see the faces of the portrayed persons. Favorite: abstract portrait (half face, half 'flying shapes').

Similar to Pretty In Ink Press, Sche illustrates Black people (womxn). While some of her digital illustrations use various colors, others are monochrome. Our favorite illustration probably is "Quintana" with her face that inspires so many questions in us!

For more inspiration: check out Black Artist Space ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿. They feature works of probably countless Black artists on Instagram, including photographers, sculptors, coloring book app creators, authors, ...

In case you are wondering: we consciously chose artists that don't have a huge following on Instagram. So go and support them, show some love!

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