Blacks in the Arts: Doing the Work

By Editor published on Wednesday, February 4, 2009 and is filed under Money. You can follow responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Artist Phoebe Beasley, who has been a noteworthy presence in the art community for several decades, was once a senior advertising account executive at a Los Angeles radio station. Using creativity and sales savvy from her media days, Beasley has parlayed her passion for art into works that are admired (and bought) by some of the who’s who of African American culture—from close friend Maya Angelou to Oprah Winfrey, Tyler Perry, and Tavis Smiley.

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