The Symbolic Representation of James Rolling Jr. is part of the Black Male Artist Professor Series. This series aims to showcase and celebrate the accomplishments of Black male visual artists/art or art education professors (must be both) who have made significant contributions to the art world or art education and have taught or are currently teaching in visual art and/or art education programs at historically White colleges and universities in the United States. The series will showcase paintings inspired by Fauvism's stylistic traditions, created using a combination of acrylic and oil paints and incorporating symbolic references associated with each subject. To maintain consistency, every painting will be of a standard size of 36" x 48", while unique techniques will be employed to represent each subject. The series will comprise of 20 to 25 paintings.

Ligel Lambert

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Ligel is an interdisciplinary artist, adjunct professor at RMCAD, graphic designer, and entrepreneur born in Cap-Haïtien, Haiti; he became a US citizen on October 16, 2003, while serving in the United States Marine Corps and currently resides in New York City, United States. He has lived and worked in Japan, South Korea, China, and the US. His artistic skills span painting, collage, printmaking, assemblage, and sculpture. Ligel holds a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in Interdisciplinary Art/Painting from the Royal Melbourne Institute (RMIT) University in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (2013). He also completed a Master's in Education (M.Ed.) in Curriculum & Instruction from the University of West Florida in Pensacola, Florida, USA (2021). He holds a Bachelor of Fine Art (BFA) in Graphic Design (2011). Ligel has taught in the US, South Korea, Japan, and China. He has collaborated with notable figures such as Wycliffe Gordon, Howard R. Paul, and Bob James. Ligel’s work has been exhibited in galleries worldwide, including New York; Savannah, Georgia; Su Zhou, China; Melbourne, Australia; Jacksonville, Florida; Virginia Beach, Virginia; and Raleigh, North Carolina. His artworks can be found in a few private and public collections at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia; Savannah, Georgia; Tisdell Cottage Foundation and Coastal Jazz Association in Savannah, Georgia, City of Jacksonville, Florida, Wycliffe Gordon, and Kasseem Dean (Swizz Beatz). Ligel is a doctoral student at Columbia University’s Teachers College.