Deborah Singletary is a contemporary urban folk artist whose work carries forward ancestral storytelling and symbolic arts rooted in Southern and African cultural memory. Moving between image, object, and spirit, she creates work that honors lineage, ritual, and the hidden wisdom carried in everyday life. Her art has been featured in The New Yorker and New Woman magazines, Painting from the Source (HarperCollins), and Brooklyn on My Mind: Black Visual Artists from the WPA to the Present (Schiffer Publishing Ltd.). She was also included in the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture’s landmark exhibition, Black New York Artists of the 20th Century.

Singletary’s paintings, tableaus, and wands explore memory, spirituality, and cultural continuity. Her work has been exhibited at venues including The Children’s Art Carnival, Hamilton Landmark Galleries, Rush Gallery, the LeRoy Neiman Art Center, Kenkeleba Gallery and Akwaaba Gallery.

An interfaith minister as well as a visual artist, Singletary approaches art-making as a sacred practice. Through her artwork and symbolic art workshops, she invites others to listen inwardly, reclaim imagination, and encounter creative truth. She says, “For me, making art is a spiritual path, and being an artist is living a love story.”

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