“Freedom Rights Series” by Gale Fulton Ross

40 x 26 inches, limited editionof 20, each signed/numbered and hand embellished as a unique print —unframed

These four panels include Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks and Angela Davis.

I came into my own during the 1960s. I was a young housewife and mother living in the suburbs of Boston, but in my head and heart I was a freedom fighter documenting the strength, dignity, and beauty of people dying while struggling for justice. In those days, when I approached my easel, I was on the front lines I still am. Knowledge of our history will set us free; here is a morsel of that history’.

Goal from age 7 to be an artist! And make my father proud. He committed suicide when I was 31

That same year I sat on a bar stool in an after hours jazz club called Mikells and chatted for about three hours with James Jimmy BaldwinHe was 54. In a big brotherly fashion he changed my despair and my artistic journey although it took a while for me to understand and realize exactly what our one time encounter would become to mean.

ME, in my own words;

Who am I…?

I am not renowned

I am respected

I am an observer

An adviser

A cultural carrier

An artist/activist and a critical thinker

I live an art driven life

I am a professional visual artist who came into her own in the 60s during the Freedom Movement.

My success in making art for a living is in the power of word of mouth- Ive no gallery representation. I dont teach – My work is sold by private brokers or from my studio.

Ive participated in many gallery and museum exhibitions including in 1998 I opened a solo exhibition in the Ringling Museum of Fine Arts (the state museum in Sarasota FL.)Education Gallery titled: My Museum-questioning the lack of diversity and inclusion at museums throughout the country by spotlighting

its historical inadequacies. Changes were made to its Board and Administration because of MY MUSEUM which became WHOSE MUSEUM IS IT ANYWAY?! in the local press.

The stewards of my work are primarily prominent African American Collectorsmany of whom started their collections with a Fulton Ross.

My art hangs in private and corporate collections nationally and internationally

I am in the permanent collections of The Charles H Wright Museum in Detroit; The Oakland Museum; San Francisco General Hospital; Carillon Imports for Absolute Vodka; The Maryland Historical Society; North Carolina Central University; Michigan State and West Michigan State Universities; and the Seattle Library and others.

Ive lead an art driven life for over fifty years

I am self-taught a White Art Professor once said in order for me to teach you how to draw Id need to remove your colored hand and give you mine.

I became an outsider.

I studied with artists whose work I admired

I have worked in France, Beijing, Tanzania, Germany and in Italy.

My work is focused on emotions expressed by the face and figure and includes sculpture and portraits.