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Join us today for our interview with this remarkable artist!
Thank you, Salty Candace, for this great interview
Adrienne La Faye is a Painter, an Author, and filmmaker, and a Community Social Justice Art Educator focused on chronicling the African American diaspora.
Seattle born and raised, a narrator compelled artistic-historian, a woman, an activist, same-gender married, and an African American. She's a defender of the disenfranchised, the marginalized from systemic racist judicial systems. Her exceptional skills as a COLORIST are second to none. Author middle-grade & illustrated by her book titled: “Dream Jumpers the Inheritance.”
Residency recipient of the national 2019 Civil Rights Pilgrimage project. A full-time painter/illustrator, in 2019 she received the City/Artist grant from 4Culture for PORTRAITS OF FORGOTTEN WOMEN project.
2017 honored with the prestigious 4Culture Community Fellowship award.
She established the “Renton Outside Art Gallery in 2017.” An award for exceptional contribution to Renton's Galvanizing Public Art from Governor Jay Inslee.
Also, a recipient of the 2016-17 Solo Art show of Seattle’s Mayor, Ed. Murray’s Art gallery, where she exhibited four different painting series' consisting of twenty-one original paintings.
Adrienne designed La Faye Artist Workshops,” teaching children and adults in her how to paint classes for three organizations.
In 2016 awarded the Chapala Artist residency in Jalisco, MX. She won the highly competitive 2018 4Culture Community fellowship, numerous grants and awards for painting excellence.
KING5 TV EVENING MAGAZINE since to current, has regularly featured Adrienne’s art, social justice, filmmaker and a community teaching artist on their TV station, since 2017 to current. www.king5.com/entertainment/tele…-artwork/411420890
She’s volunteered for several non-profits such as, Renton Municipal Arts Commission, five years, Onyx Arts Collective five years, a teaching artist for youth and adults ten years, Tukwila Arts Commission one year. She has served on several panels, public committees, private boards throughout her artist career.
“I believe in giving back to my community, says Adrienne, whether it be, at large or individually. I'm civically inspired to make the world around me a better place, by rolling up my sleeves and work to make a difference. My work encompasses teaching art to children K-12, volunteer for many causes, especially with social injustices, LGBTQ, and black women rights.”
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