April 18, 2022 Image Calling All Ancestors by Ta-coumba Aiken, 2019 Tyrone Ta-coumba Aiken ’74 is recognized as one of the recipients of the 97th Guggenheim Fellowships competition in the Fine Arts category. Aiken is a Twin Cities artist, arts administrator, educator, and community activist who focuses on public art and collaborative projects. His “rhythm paintings” on paper and canvas are loose and lively. He has participated in the creation of over 300 murals and public art sculptures with themes ranging from local history to the artist's own style of rhythmic pattern and spirit writing. Aiken has served on the boards of the Minneapolis Arts Commission, the African American Cultural Arts Center, Forecast Public Arts, and the St. Paul Art Collective and has acted as an advisor on the arts for both the City of St. Paul and the City of Minneapolis. In addition to the Guggenheim Fellowship, he has been the recipient of a Pollock–Krasner Foundation Fellowship, a Bush Foundation Visual Arts Fellowship, and a Guinness Book World Record for the most Lite-Brite pegs ever used for his painting Forever Saint Paul. His works can be found in public and private collections including those of the Walker Art Center, The McKnight Foundation, General Mills, Herbie Hancock, Taj Mahal, and Maya Angelou. Learn More 2022 Guggenheim Announcement (gf.org—April 7, 2022) Aiken's Website