Books by Ekua Holmes

About

Ekua Holmes's collages celebrate the vibrancy of urban life and the joys and challenges of childhood. She was the recipient of a 2013 Brother Thomas Fellowship from The Boston Foundation for her contributions to the Boston arts community. In 2014 she became the first African American woman to be appointed to the Boston Arts Commission. Holmes's debut as a picture book illustrator, Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement (Candlewick, 2015) by Carole Boston Weatherford, received a Silver Medal from the Society of Illustrator's Original Art exhibition, the Robert F. Sibert and Randolph Caldecott Honors, and a Coretta Scott King John Steptoe New Illustrator Award.