ortunately, whites controlled the black exhibition of black art, which they entered into competitions exclusively for black artists. During the 1930's the programs were abruptly halted which meant that private support for the artists virtually disappeared. Yet, during the period in which black art emerged, it was the first of the arts to define visual vocabulary for Black Americans.
             The artists born within the period of the Harlem Renaissance were spread across the country and knew nothing of one another. As time progressed, they began to develop a type of kinship driven by their feelings of political activism, unwavering ethnic pride and a peerless sense of cultural understanding, which ventures out along all geographic regions. It inspired artists to create in a way they never fathomed before. During the 1920's, black artists had an abundance of professional and creative options in which they chose to represent. One of the great artists of the Renaissance period was know as Meta Vaux Warrick
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