Mickalene Thomas – Artist, Curator, Educator, Mentor
Mickalene Thomas is a contemporary African-American visual artist best known as a painter using rhinestones, acrylic, and enamel. She is an internationally renowned artist recognized for works celebrating the power of female beauty toward claiming women’s agency. She confronts the objectification of women while simultaneously offering a vocabulary for redefining notions of femininity. Mickalene lives…