Lisa Love Whittington

Lisa Love Whittington is a Georgia-based multidisciplinary artist. She earned her doctorate at the University of Georgia and started teaching courses on subjects such as feminist arts, giants of the arts, and visual and media literacy across several universities. She has given a TEDx talk entitled “What Does Art Want With You?” and was awarded best in show at the Atlanta airport for her painting Under A Soprano Sky.

Art – Issue 32

Faces of Black leaders in the windows of apartment buildings.

•The Sun Still Shines

Poverty is associated with darkness, gray, and hopelessness—but out of necessity and lack, substance is developed, ideas are conceived, and artists are born.