Letitia Huckaby
My project Suffer/ Rage focuses on the political ethos and gender issues in our world today. Suffrage is defined as the right to vote and a series of intercessory prayers or petitions. My piece Sugar and Spice includes an image of my then ten-year-old daughter holding a protest sign that says “Enough” in spray paint. Her pose is reminiscent of Norman Rockwell’s painting The Problem We All Live With, an iconic image of the civil rights movement. The image was printed on a six-foot vintage, cotton picking sack that references slavery, and the phrase “Enough” was taken from a speech by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s nine-year-old granddaughter, Yolanda King, at the March for Our Lives rally in Washington, DC, where she spoke in front of a crowd of hundreds of thousands and said: “I have a dream that enough is enough, and that this should be a gun-free world, period” (Winsor, 2018).
Letitia Huckaby has a degree in Journalism from the University of Oklahoma, a BFA from the Art Institute of Boston in photography and her Master’s degree from the University of North Texas in Denton. Mrs. Huckaby has been blessed to exhibit as an emerging artist at the Dallas Contemporary, the Galveston Arts Center, Renaissance Fine Art in Harlem curated by Deborah Willis, PhD, the McKenna Museum in New Orleans, the Camden Palace Hotel in Cork City, Ireland, and the Texas Biennial at Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum and will be a featured artist at Crystal Bridges Museum for State of the Art 2020. The work is included in several prestigious collections; the Library of Congress, the Art Museum of Southeast Texas, the Brandywine Workshop in Philadelphia, and the Samella Lewis Contemporary Art Collection at Scripps College in Claremont, California. Letitia is represented by the Liliana Bloch Gallery in Dallas and the Anzenberger Gallery in Vienna, Austria.
