Tracy and Baxton Baylor | Art Advocates

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 The owner of Clarke Art Consulting, Tracy curates the Minority Art Exhibition (MAE) each August. “The first generation of blue-chip minority artists are just hitting the auction block now,” says Tracy citing Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catllett and Jacob Lawrence. Her father, self-taught abstract painter James E. Clarke III, inspires their mission. “Once the art world discovered him; he showed in New York and Paris. But his gift went unnoticed for decades,” says Baxton, a graphic designer. “We want to rewrite his story for other minority artists.”

Tracy: I am living out my passion because of  Baxton. His talents, support and love have helped make my dreams a reality.

Baxton: “In seventh grade, I circled her picture in the yearbook. Fourteen years later, we met through a mutual friends wedding. She was a bridesmaid; I was a groomsmen. I don’t believe in coincidences. Like the ancient Hebrew proverb says "Whoso findeth a wife, findeth a good thing."