​Gwendolyn Garth

"I am a native Clevelander, a multimedia artist of African descent, and I am a Community Activist. As a champion for myself and other marginalized artists I think of myself as the “Harriet Tubman of Artists” in Cleveland. As I am shown, as I discover and as I create doors of opportunities, I like to show others those doors also and bring them through with me.

I have always created artistically since my youth, but because I was academically talented, my mother encouraged my intellectual side as opposed to my creative side. I thank God that my older sister, Katherine who was also a creative, encouraged and inspired me artistically.

Later on in my life, a friend and a trusted critic pointed out that the word “art” was in the middle of my last name, and that informed my spirit that I was born to be an artist. That moment became a turning point for me: on that day I gave myself permission to be an artist, My Motto is Art is in the middle of my last name and me, and I Have No Plan B!
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As the Founding Owner of Kings & Queens of Art, I am living and working in one of my repeated childhood dreams"

​Carol Brown    2/25/25