About Ernest

Baltimore City - Station North A&E District
“An artist is a sort of emotional or spiritual historian. His role is to make you realize the doom and glory of knowing who you are and what you are.” 

-James Baldwin

The journey to self-discovery lasts a lifetime. That journey is the cornerstone of Ernest Shaw’s artistic and  educational practice. Ernest was born in 1969 in Baltimore, Maryland during the Black Arts and Black Power movements. These movements have had and continue to have a… more

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