Art By Abel

01/30/2026

FOR THE PEOPLE

01/30/2026

GETTING IT DONE

01/30/2026

THE BEGINNING

06/16/2022

Static

Special thanks to for helping paint this

06/02/2022

For years owner of would tell me that one day I will paint something for her. That time finally came last year when won a City of Charlotte Placemaking Grant. By working with the Beatties Ford community, with inspiration from Rev. Clifford Jones, The River Of Life Mural was created. It's purpose is to honor black history makers who have strong connections to the Historic West End.
It was a great honor to be involved with such a project. The best part was that I had the opportunity to give them their flowers now. The prominent people depicted are Dr Bertha Maxwell-Roddey, James Ferguson, Julius Chambers, Chatty Hattie Leeper, Harvey Gantt and Sarah Stevenson.

12/23/2021

11/30/2021

Her name was Nance
This painting is one of the path of portraits in The Charlotte Museum of History. There is always alot more to learn

03/19/2021

Reposted from
I really enjoyed assisting in painting this mural called NC8. It depicts renown musicians, singers, composers/ song writers all from the North Carolina.

03/16/2021

Reposted from (Post 10/11)

FREEDOM

Come Rest now Chile, your Journey has been long and hard.
Been rot with dangers and snares,
Though the running has ceased,
your work has now just begun.
Enslaved, having been stripped of all human dignity what is there now left of you?
Family Been Sold Away
No Land or Home to Call you Own
But you are Enslaved No Longer
Free Your Mind
Your Family are your brothers and sisters around you
Your home is where your Spirit and Heart Lay.
Because You Are Free Now
Come rest a while and take time to feel your freedom.
Come now, Chili, and breath in your freedom.
Come - Drink your Freedom In

- text by LATIBAH’s research, educate, archive and development (READ) department.

Artist:
Presented by: & LATIBAH Collard Green Museum
Location: 1635 W Trade St

03/16/2021

Reposted from (Post 9/11) Reaching for Freedom

Abel shared, "The group met up with William Still in  Philadelphia. He was very instrumental in the Underground Railroad. A lot of the writings that you find are his because he documented everything, but he didn't share the secrets because they were going through it at the time.  He could tell some things but not everything. No one tells the entire story so no one really knows what happened. William's mother was a slave and she decided she was going to run. She had four kids at the time: two sons and two daughters.  She could only take two of her kids with her and she decided to take her two daughters. She escaped to Philadelphia, got married when she got there, and then had William.  William spent a lot of his career helping others find Freedom. He was always trying to get his brothers back. He found one of them."

Nearby sign: Anti-Slavery Movement

Abolitionists and Anti-Slavery organizations were a diverse group of direct and indirect participants in the Undergroup Railroad.

Indirect participants influenced society by demanding the end of enslavement and further exposed this disgraceful system though political and public platforms.

Direct participants, by means of the Underground Railroad, devised a system of escape and provided fugitives with food, shelter, clothes and jobs in an effort to create opportunities for runaways to live their lives as freedmen.
Some of the most advent abolitionists were the Black Freedmen and women, the Quaker Society and heroines of the time such as Harriet Tubman, William Lloyd Garrison and William Still. - text by LATIBAH’s research, educate, archive and development (READ) department.

Artist:
Presented by: & LATIBAH Collard Green Museum
Location: 1635 W Trade St