Guest Artist: Ta-Coumba Aiken

For our 2015 Good Friday service, Guest Artist Ta-Coumba Aiken painted a picture based on the readings and choral music shared during the service.

About the Artist:

Ultimately, Aiken is a painter, an illustrator, a graphic artist, a muralist, a lecturer, a curator, an arts advocate, and a community collaborator. He works with ink, paint, glass, metal, wood, clay, ceramics, and landscaping materials. He has achieved a career as an artist through grants and fellowships, exhibitions, commissioned works, speaker workshops and other collaborations. His work spans several decades, disciplines, and mediums. “My thing was having all these different outlets so people can see me and I can see them,” he explains. “I create my art to heal the hearts and souls of people.”