| Summary: | Artist and art professor Lee Ransaw, was born on March 24, 1938, in Little Rock, Arkansas. Ransaw attended Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, where he earned his B.A. degree in art education in 1962 and his M.A. degree in fine arts in 1966. In 1973, Ransaw received his Ed.D. degree from Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois. In 1979, Ransaw worked as an art professor at Morris Brown College where he was named the chair of the fine art department and dean of arts and letters. In 2002, Ransaw founded The National Alliance of Artists from Historically Black Colleges (NAAHBCU) which held its first major traveling exhibition entitled Visions From Within at the James Kemp Gallery in Dallas, Texas. In 2004, Ransaw was hired as an adjunct professor at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. In 2010, Ransaw retired as president of NAAHBCU and served as chairman of the organization.
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