Inga Kimberly Brown

I was about 7 years old when strong images became real in my mind. My mother bought me drawing paper and watercolors and encouraged me to draw on paper what was in my minds eye. What became clearer and clearer to me was the images depicting the complexity of my own background. It's been my life's quest to artistically explore those haunting images and the stories behind them.

From the time that I can remember, I've been aware of a world outside of my current existence, a world that drives me to paint on canvas those images that haunt me of my own ancestral heritage.


Without a verbal or written family background, I knew that both sides of my family were of racially mixed heritage. My mother's family came from Georgia and was comprised of Siouian Native American, African, English and Scotch bloodlines. They of course only recognized and were recognized by the One Drop Law, also known as hypo-descent, dating back to the 1662 Virginia law on the treatment of mixed-race individuals.

My father's family lived in Bolton, North Carolina and it was there when I was 11 years old that my long intense history of racial blood mixing in the Antebellum South was validated. My grandmother's family was“Free Issue”from the ...

Education

2014-2016 University Of North Carolina at Greensboro. Graduate School. Masters of Fine Arts( MFA).
Greensboro, North Carolina.

2010-2014 The Pennsylvania Academy Of Fine Arts. BFA. Painting major.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1998 Fashion Institute of Technology. New York City, New York

1989-1990 School of Visual Arts. New York City, New York

1988- Martin Luther King High School. Diploma. Philadelphia, PA.

1984-1986 Creative and Performing Arts High School. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Teaching
2012- Present
Prison Arts Mentor in association with the Alternative Library Open Window / Prison Express Paper, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York


Awards 2011

Sidetracks Art Gallery, Malachy Award for the painting "Butterfly".

2010 -2014

Merit Scholarship, The Pennsylvania Academy Of Fine Arts

Academy Scholarship, The Pennsylvania Academy Of Fine Arts

2013

Friends of PAFA Scholarship, The Pennsylvania Academy Of The Fine Arts

Darling Scholarship, The Pennsylvania Academy Of The Fine Arts

2014

The Venture Fund, The Pennsylvania Academy Of Fine Arts.

Video Installations

Zydeco Girl . Filmed, Produced and Directed by Inga Kimberly Brown.

YouTube: http://www.you...

Please refer to my website www.ingakimberlybrown.com