Varnette Honeywood's   "Jesus Loves Me"

Varnette Honeywood (1950-2010)--

Ms. Honeywood's bright colors and simplified forms were strongly influenced by narrative artists like Romare Bearden and Jacob Lawrence. Her work developed a socially conscious style of genre painting that showed black Americans in familiar settings: interacting with family members, gathering at church, socializing on a front porch. "You can depict segregation, starving and homelessness," Mr. Cosby told The Washington Post in 1997. "But in Varnette's work you can see teenagers doing doing homework, a family cooking a meal, girls doing their hair."

Emmanuel Taiwo Jegede  (1943-    )is a painter,  

printmaker, sculptor in wood,

Path of Joy by Emmanuel Taiwo Jegede. Jegede will be in Los Angeles through March 5, 2011 before returning to the United Kingdom.  Contact Moza Mjasiri Cooper at moza613@gmail.com for more information.

bronze and ceramic and musician, a poet and storyteller.

Born in Ayegbaju Ekiti, Nigeria, his work bears the marks of his Yoruba Ekiti background yet is marked by his own "creative ebullience and distinctive presence." His poetry is immersed with Yoruba traditions and he has given recitals at numerous venues in the UK, Nigeria and elsewhere.  

His love of colour is reflected in his paintings, and he is keen to explore the use of colour in his sculptures. Jegede's work in all media reflects the exuberant spirit of the Nigerian people, as well as his own distinctive and creative presence.

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Undine Barnes Calles (Margo Hall) is a successful African American public relations maven at the top of her game. Her Gucci glasses and Louis Vuitton bag are all real enough, but Undine's life is a fabrication. It all unravels when her Argentine husband embezzles all of her money and suddenly disappears, leaving her pregnant and penniless.

Undine has no choice but to return to her childhood home in Brooklyn's Walt Whitman projects, where her journey of self-discovery truly begins. Undine's working-class-to-riches-and-back-to-rags journey is a thought-provoking morality tale with a comic twist.