Richard Duarte Brown

Richard Duarte Brown, born in Atlantic City New Jersey in 1957 he was known as shy little Ricky by his family. Now called Duarte was encouraged to face people and told he should never be an artist by his mom and oldest brother. Their reasons he could never make money at being an artist and everything in the art world has already been done. He understood their words were for protection. As Duarte puts it by the age nine, his “Artist Spirit” felt homeless. But Duarte heard a still small voice saying you are an artist. And Duarte saw his art as a potential to uplift and elevate mans existence ever since.

Duarte began drawing at age 6, creating art from found objects such as rice, glue, shoe polish and cardboard, and he continues to work primarily in mixed media. His works have been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the United States and locally at the Frank Hale Cultural Center at The Ohio State University and the William Thomas Gallery. He is a participating artist in Interrupted Life: Incarcerated Mothers in the United States, a traveling public art exhibition support by the Ford Foundation. Duarte has dedicated his talents to helping young people through countless programs including CAPACITY, the Short Stop Youth Center, the King Arts Complex, and Ohio Alliance for Arts Education's Artists-in-Schools program, GCAC's Children of the Future, Ebony Boys, Art Safe and Very Special Arts Ohio. Duarte has also worked as a high school art instructor at the Arts and College Preparatory Academy in Columbus.

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