I love being creative. I love my art. I learned early that I had the gift of story telling, and my goal is to employ this element in my work. Within each piece is a story that conveys some historical significance or cultural aspect of my heritage.
I believe passionately that my mission as a visual artist is to promote and to preserve by chronicling the oral history, customs, and traditions of African Americans through my work, especially those rural southwest Georgia
This is why I create. This is my artistic purpose.~
Kuanita Murphy
Artist
Georgia | USA
Growing up in rural southwest Georgia was "fun," at least that was how my great Aunt described it. Born in 1918, Jessie Sampson had many childhood memories to share with me.
Living in the country-side of Randolph County, Georgia, going to town was not an everyday experience. Oftentimes, the older children were left at home to watch the younger ones while their parents went to town to buy the goods they needed.
So, when youngsters were given the opportunity to go in to town with their folks, it was a fun time. This work of art, created with oil pastels, depicts a simpler time when a seemingly ordinary trip in to town was an adventure for both young and old.
