Ekua Holmes

Ekua Holmes is an artist and illustrator who received an education in art at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, where she continues her career as a community coordinator. She has a highly successful career as an exhibiting artist, and her work has not only earned grants through the Boston Foundation but has been featured on Google's own landing page. She is the illustrator of many acclaimed books for children.

Of her own work, Ekua writes "Although much of [it] is set in an urban environment, these portraits of beloved Aunties, sacred gardens, and children at play, sing with lyrics as old as mankind."

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