Artist: Kevin Cole

Medium: Monotype

Size: 29" x 35"

Includes book written and signed by the Artist: Where Do We Go From Here

Exploring Gerrymandering & Voting

About the Artist:

Kevin Cole received his B.S. from the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, an M.A. in art education from the University of Illinois at Urbana, and an M.F.A. from Northern Illinois University where he was a Rhoden Smith Scholar . Within the last 32 years, he has received 27 grants and fellowships, 66 awards in art, 51 teaching awards. On February 1, 2022, he received a Proclamation from the City of
South Fulton proclaiming February 1, 2022, Kevin Cole Day. He just received the Working Artist Fellowship from the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia. In December Mr. Cole received the 2020 Governor's Award for the Arts and Humanities in the State of Georgia and the 2019 Nexus Award from the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center in Atlanta. In July he received the Working Artist
Fellowship from MOCAG. In April Mr. Cole received the Art Aspiration Award by the National Society Incorporation for his dedication to students' achievements. The 2020 Trail Blazer Award from Salem
Bible Church, in Atlanta, GA.

His artwork has been featured in more than 490 exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad. Cole's artwork is included in more than 4000 public, private, and corporate collections throughout the United States and abroad. Public collections include the new National Museum of African American History and Culture at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC, The Georgia Museum, Athens, GA, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA.; William Jefferson Clinton Library, Little
Rock, Ark.; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Ark.; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CN.; The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, La.; The David C Driskell Center University of Maryland at College Park; Dayton Institute of Art, Dayton, Ohio; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art,Philadelphia, Pa.; The Georgia Museum of Contemporary Art, Atlanta, Ga.; Corcoran Museum in
Washington, D.C. and the Tampa Museum in Tampa, Fla. Corporate collections include Bank of America, Charlotte, N.C.; IBM, N.Y. and King and Spaulding Law Firm, Atlanta, Ga. Private collectors include Michael Jordan and John and Monica Pearson of Atlanta. Cole has also created more than 45public art works, including the Coca-Cola Centennial Olympic Mural for the 1996 Olympic Games.

His artwork has been featured in more than 125 publications, recently The Guardian Magazine in Paris, France in Scholastic Art with Dale Chihuly as well as The Washington Post, Sculpture Magazine,The Union Tribune in San Diego, CA, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, Atlanta and most recentlyForbes Magazine.