Daniel Minter is an American artist known for his work in the mediums of painting and assemblage. His overall body of work often deals with themes of displacement and diaspora, ordinary/extraordinary blackness; spirituality in the Afro-Atlantic world; and the (re)creation of meanings of home. Minter works in varied media – canvas, wood, metal, paper. twine, rocks, nails, paint. This cross-fertilization strongly informs his artistic sensibility. His carvings become assemblages. His paintings are often sculptural.
Minter’s work has been featured in numerous institutions and galleries including the Portland Museum of Art, Seattle Art Museum, The Charles H. Wright Museum, Tacoma Art Museum, Bates College, University of Southern Maine, Hammonds House Museum, The David C. Driskell Center and the Northwest African American Art Museum.
He has been instrumental in highlighting the history of the Underground Railroad in New England. For over 15 years Minter has raised awareness of the forced removal in 1912 of an interracial community on Maine’s Malaga Island. His formative work on the subject emerges from Minter’s active engagement with island descendants, archeologists, anthropologists and scholars.
Minter is the co-founder of Indigo Arts Alliance, a non-profit dedicated to cultivating the artistic development of people of African descent. View the Indigo Arts Alliance website here.
