Steve Prince is a multi-award-winning mixed media artist, master printmaker, lecturer, educator, and art evangelist. He too is a husband, a dad…and also a dynamic sharp thinker who will make you laugh. A native of New Orleans, Steve is inheritor of its rich tradition of intermingled art, music, history, and religion -- this manifests in his narrative art which is rich in a particularity that confidently asserts universal truths. Director of Engagement and Distinguished Artist in Residence at the Muscarelle Museum at William and Mary (Virginia), his internationally exhibited work does not shy from demanding that his audience pay attention, remember, learn. Drawing upon Biblical and African diasporic traditions, and speaking through a variety of art mediums (he is ‘multi-lingual’), he also invites response. There are painful stories amongst the triumphant ones -- but it is in naming the pain, the offence, and then refusing to let the story end in those places that defines so much of his work. ‘Life more abundant’ is pervasive. Manifesting this is his specific interest in the cathartic Jazz Funerary tradition of New Orleans, as seen in his Katrina Suite and other printworks works directly referencing the Second Line: tears and dance; grief and joy; life and death and life. Steve has commemorated many key moments and persons in the African-American struggle, not only in print but in public sculptures. In the several residencies he has been awarded, and in the workshops he has conducted -- at colleges, churches, museums -- he reiterates his conviction that we are “all living epistles, whether we want to be or not,” and that we should anchor this in hope, faith, and collaborative creativity.