Illustrator Talk: Ekua Holmes

Join us for a talk with Illustrator, Ekua Holmes for a reading and discussion on the making of Black Girl You Are Atlas, and Coretta.  

Ekua Holmes is a native of Roxbury, MA and a graduate of the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. As an artist, designer, and as an illustrator of children’s literature, she has become a keen observer of her environment and repeatedly chooses it as her subject matter.

Her work features memories and contemporary subjects, often children, infused in the layers of her collages. Voices from the past can be found in scraps of vintage wallpapers, snippets of yesterday’s news and pieces of discarded costume jewelry, laid upon fields of primary colors and multiple textures. Holmes uses these elements to bring a fresh approach to universal subjects encompassing family, childhood, relationships, hope and faith.