The Rosenwald Fund history disappeared from the United States heritage for many years, but now the schools are being recognized across the South. These schools were so much more than schoolhouses. Julius Rosenwald believed in the arts and hoped to allow African American artists to represent their heritage and culture. Edwin Embree established the Rosenwald Fellowship Program. These were three-year fellowships offered to 587 African Americans and 278 white Southerners in fields of education, public health, agriculture, sociology, economics, visual arts, music, dance and more.

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Being an artist can be expensive. An artist often must buy paper, inks, pens, paints, paintbrushes, and so much more to simply create a piece that conveys a rich history.

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It was not just one painting or just one artist, the talents were spread across numerous individuals. Jacob Lawrence (1940/41/42), Dilbert Dwoyid Olmsted (1946), Elizabeth Catlett (1946/7), and Richmond Barthé (1930/31) are among some of the talents. This is a different kind of gallery. Click on the different paintings to find out who painted them and see the details on your screen.