D. Edward Dyer's Page

As a writer, artist, collector, and an advocate for the arts, it's my passion to use my experience and training to help artists and those in the art arena realize their ambitions. I do this through a variety of technical and traditional means, often involving creative writing, graphics, web design, coaching, lectures, and all too often elbow-grease.

My personal collection is compact, and centers around a mix of iconic, established and emergent artists, such as Joseph Holston, Jacob Lawrence, Deborah Shedrick, Stan Squirewell, Dion Jacob, Elnora Wilson, William Tolliver, Paul Goodnight, George Nock, E. L. Whitley, Lou Stovall, Ephrem Kouakou, Gidey Gezahey, and others.

This forum will allow me to showcase some of those pieces as well as work by artists with whom I am aligned for the purpose of furthering their growth, exposure and success as they would measure it.

My goal here on BAIA is to contribute as much to the growth of art coming out of the Diaspora as possible by making meaningful and productive offerings of ideas and insights to the collaborative that may emerge. I also hope to grow in spirit and knowledge by viewing the shared thoughts of others who are similarly aligned.

My efforts off-page can be seen at http://www.artndeed.com