About the Artist
Steve A. Prince is a native of New Orleans, LA. He received his B.F.A. from Xavier University of Louisiana and his M.F.A. from Michigan State University. Prince is an artist, educator, and art evangelist. His mediums are printmaking, drawing, and sculpture. He has shown his art internationally in various solo, group, and juried exhibitions, at the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, the National Gallery of the Bahamas, the Museum of Cultural Arts Center in Santa Catarina, Brazil, the Grand Rapids Museum of Art, the Portsmouth Courthouse Museum, Hampton University Museum, the Museum of African American Culture in New Orleans, Xavier University of Louisiana Gallery, Charles H. Taylor Art Center in Hampton, and the Peninsula Fine Arts Center to name a few. Prince has created a number of public artworks, including a life-size bronze bust of 1967 Medal of Honor recipient Ruppert Leon Sargent in Hampton, Virginia; a 12' x 40' mixed media installation entitled Fabric of Life in Newport News, Virginia; a 4' x 24' woodcut entitled Alexandria in Alexandria, Virginia; a 3' x 30' woodcut entitled All That Jazz... Making New Connections in Richmond, Virginia; and a 15' stainless-steel kinetic sculpture titled, Song for John in the Coliseum Central district in Hampton, Virginia.
