CHICAGO Art has always been part of
Kendall Collins life. I ve been drawing since even before I can remember, he says. I still have a bunch of sketchbooks from elementary, middle and high school, so it s been a progression for the majority of my life.
The Western Michigan University student has come a long way from sketching on notebook paper, finding his artwork now on display at the largest science center in the Western Hemisphere. Not one but two of Collins original pieces were selected from entries from across the country for the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry s Black Creativity Juried Art Exhibition the longest running exhibition of African-American art. It s the second year in a row his work will be on display.