The Salem Art Association commissioned Portland-based artist Jeremy Okai Davis for the contemporary paintings.

Choosing vibrant colors for clothing and background was a process of ... One way it did that was by commissioning Davis to paint portraits of Black pioneers with long-overlooked contributions ...

On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...

The 17th-century artist’s likeness of the young Hapsburg, currently on view at the Norton Simon Museum in California, highlights the painter’s splendid late style in an age when the Spanish royals had ...

I transformed circular bokeh into heart shapes using a homemade aperture disc that I made using sticky tape and black paper ...

I served as the lead historian and researcher for an exhibition where three of these portraits are now on display, “In Slavery’s Wake: Making Black Freedom ... it was in the background as ...