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2025 Ohio Artist Registry Juried Exhibition

Richard Brown

Teaching Artist Duarte’s Collective Group

Artist Statement

Richard Duarte Brown, known as Duarte, is the resident artist at Whitehall-Yearling , Berne Union High Schools and Benjamin Logan high school through the TeachArtsOhio grant from the Ohio Arts Council  (OAC).  He has been the resident artist at WYHS since 2015. He has been a master artist with the TRANSIT ARTS Youth Arts Program and the Ohio Alliance for Arts Education Art in the House Program since 2006.  For more than 30 years, Duarte has dedicated his talents to helping young people in Columbus through countless programs including CAPACITY (CAPA’s Youth Arts Program), the Short Stop Youth Center, the King Arts Complex, Ohio Alliance for Arts Education (and formerly GCAC’s) Artists-in-Schools program, GCAC’s Children of the Future, Ebony Boys, Art Safe and VSA Ohio.  Duarte has also worked as a high school art instructor at the Arts and College Preparatory Academy in Columbus.  His murals can be seen throughout the city bringing comfort and inspiration to countless viewers.  Many of his students have gone on to college and careers in the creative industries and many others have simply become important contributors to the well-being of our community by embracing their responsibilities as parents, audience members, arts consumers and more.  Duarte has the special gift of engaging people from all backgrounds and bringing them together through his creative spirit.  Duarte was awarded the Aminah Brenda Lynn Roninson Fellowship in 2022. Duarte was also honored with the Governor’s  award in the field of art education for the state of Ohio in 2022. Deeply influenced by Mr. William Steele, his fifth grade teacher, Duarte wrote a book in 2012, The Steele Influence, dedicated to Steele’s profound impact on his life. Duarte Graduated from Columbus State Community College in 2009 with an Associate of Arts and then graduated from Ohio Dominican and received one of the highest awards from the university.  Duarte has carried on the gift of an educator who has the power to change a child’s life and inspires young people throughout Columbus to be resourceful and relentless in following their dreams.