Excerpted from an interview conducted on December 4th, 2018 with Virginia Anderson for BMA/Stories

Anderson: You’ve mentioned before that your father was an important role model for you in becoming an artist. Can you tell me a little bit about him and your relationship with him?

Oletha DeVane can be counted among a distinguished roster of artists, including Betye Saar, Howardena Pindell, Joyce J. Scott, Renée Stout, and Vanessa German, who each in their own way have engaged in an art- making process that Linda Goode-Bryant and Marcy S.

Public art moves us from within, moves us in its legacy and gives us a conduit to reimagine the world. This is a body of work that promotes the recovery of a collected past meant to elicit a deeper understanding and fuller perspective to the history of the United States.

I started making music in 2014, mainly instrumentals, under the name Neu Reeves. I released my first instrumental album Malware in 2020, featuring seven tracks. In 2021, I realeased a self produced single with vocals called Trying Times
The Bromo Painted Path is a street mural connecting art and cultural venues along Tyson Alley between Franklin and Saratoga Streets. Commissioned by the Bromo Arts District, the path features splashes of teal, purple and pink evoking oversized leaves, flowers, and seedpods of wild plants that grow along the alley’s canyon-like brick walls. As more buildings along the alley are redeveloped as art spaces and residential lofts, these tenacious plants are disappearing.

Remingtopo is a topographically-inspired traffic calming pavement art project enhancing pedestrian safety and creating outdoor space for community gatherings and small business events in the Remington Neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland.

The "Heroes & Villains" series explores the intersectionality of gender and racial inequality of the feminist art movement of 1960-1970. It is rooted in Noreen's “WHY”, regarding her journey through life as a black woman and the social/racial inequities between black/brown women and their white female counterparts when living out their feminine freedoms and human rights in a white male dominated society.