Solomon Thurman will co-chair the Arts and Education Council’s 2019 St. Louis Arts Awards in January. He is co-owner of 10th Street Gallery and an artist, researcher and teacher. He was commissioned to paint “Celia,” a portrait of a slave girl, by civil rights attorney Margaret Bush Wilson and “Black Americans in Flight,” a 51-foot-long mural depicting the Tuskegee Airmen at St. Louis Lambert International Airport. He received the Missouri Arts Council’s 2018 Individual Artist of the Year Award.
