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Clifford Darrett, born in Evansville, Indiana, and resides in Dayton, Ohio. Discovering early that he had the " natural ability " to draw, he engaged in formal training to enhance his natural ability. In addition to his art education, Mr. Darrett holds the Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Central State University, Wilberforce, Ohio and the Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio. Clifford considers himself a contemporary genre artist, whose style is realism. Mr. Darrett incorporates into his art, themes from African-American life, as well as those from his travels to Puerto Rico, Jamaica, the Bahamas and The Virgin Islands. The mediums of his artistic expression include oil, pastels and airbrush with acrylics and watercolor. Mr.
Darrett’s paintings are included in many private collections in the
Dayton, Cincinnati, Louisville, Lexington and Columbus area.
His paintings have won awards in Dayton’s Black Cultural Festival
for 1990, 1993, 1996, 1997, 1998 and 1999, Columbus’s Art For Community
Expression's (AACE), "Juneteenth
Festival-1993" and "Juneteenth
Festival-1994 ", " 1995 African American Cultural Expressions
Festival " of Columbus, Ohio and
Juror's Awards in Preservation Dayton Incorporated's "Art
About Town-1993, 1994, 1995, 2000,2001,2002,2003, Indiana's "
Black Expo- 1996", Chicago's Museum Of Science And Industry’s
"Black Creativity 1998 ", Louisville’s Actor’s Theatre
“African American Artist Competition” for 1998,2000, 2001.
Mr.
Darrett is a member and President Of The African American Visual
Artist Guild, of Dayton. He is also a member of the National Conference of
Artists.
Mr.
Darrett was one of the recipients of the Individual Artists Fellowships
for July 1, 1997 to June 1998, July1, 2001 to June 30, 2002, and July1,
2005 to June 2006 from The
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