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 work 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.

Ekua Holmes’ work is collage based and her subjects, made from cut and torn papers, investigate family histories, relationship dynamics, childhood impressions, the power of hope, faith, and self-determination. Ekua debuted the illustrative potential of her vibrant, collage-based art in VOICE OF FREEDOM: FANNIE LOU HAMER, a Caldecott Honor book written by Carole Boston Weatherford and has gone on to create many other highly regarded books for children.