Priest’s exhibitions include major solo, and group shows dedicated to the Underground Railroad. Priest’s paintings and drawings have been widely utilized beyond galleries, including in scholarly and educational contexts. Notably, an image by Priest was procured for the cover image for Scott Christianson’s book Freeing Charles Nalle: On the Eve of the Civil War, which explores the dramatic rescue of fugitive slave Charles Nalle in Troy, New York, a subject Priest has extensively researched and depicted in drawings, paintings and prints. Additionally, Priest's Harriet Tubman-themed works have been incorporated into African American history programs, reflecting his impact on cultural education. Also, Images from Priest’s Harriet Tubman series were acquired by the Maryland Parks Department for permanent exhibition at the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park and Visitor Center. Further reinforcing his contribution to public history, Key artworks by Priest have been utilized for road markers in Maryland, serving as visual signposts that commemorate African American heritage.

 

One Person Exhibitions 

1983 Hamilton House Youth Development Center, Louisville, KY 

1984 Jewish Community Center, Louisville, KY 

1984 Kentucky State University, Frankfort, KY 

1985 WHAS Gallery, Louisville, KY 

1986 Triangle Gallery, Sponsored by Sam Gilliam, Washington, DC 

1987 Perry Brown Hill Gallery, The Water Tower Art Association, Louisville, KY 

1991 Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA 

1992 Harris House Gallery, New Smyrna Beach, FL 

1992 Albertson - Peterson Gallery, Winter Park, FL 

1994 George Meany Labor Center, Silver Spring, Maryland 

1994 University Club, University of Louisville, KY 

1995 Belknap and Covi Galleries, University of Louisville, KY 

1995 Kentucky Railroad Museum, New Haven, KY 

1996 Michigan State University Museum, 4-month exhibition. Lansing, MI 

1996 Studio San Giuseppe Art Gallery, College Of Mount St. Joseph. Cincinnati, Ohio 

1996 - 97 Walter P. Reuther Gallery, 4-month exhibition, The College of Urban and Metropolitan Affairs Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 

1997 American Labor Museum. Haledon, New Jersey 

1997 University of Texas At El Paso, Fox Fine Art Gallery, El Paso, Texas 

1998 George Meany Archives Labor Center, Silver Spring, Maryland. 

1999 University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY 

1999 Bershad Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts. 

2001 Belknap Gallery, University of Louisville, KY 

2002 Botto House Museum. Haledon, New Jersey. 

2003 Solo Permanent Installation at T.W.U. Manhattan, NY 

2004 Solo Exhibition, Sinclair Community College Dayton, Ohio 

2005 40 Acres Gallery collaboration with California State Railroad Museum, Sacramento, CA 

2007 Underground Railroad featuring Harriet Tubman Exhibition, Denton Museum, MD

2009 Dorchester Art Center, Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad, Cambridge, MD 

2009 Hite Gallery, Harriet Tubman & the Underground Railroad, Louisville, KY 

2010 Mount St. Joseph College, Studio Giuseppe Gallery Cincinnati, OH 

2010 Botto House American Labor Museum, The Charles Nalle Rescue Drawing & Prints Haledon, NJ. 

2010 Russell Sage College Gallery, Fugitive Slave Rescued Painting of Charles Nalle by Mark Priest, Troy, NY. 

2010 Rensselaer County Historical Society, A Fugitive Slave Rescued, Troy, NY. 

2011 Strecker-Nelson Gallery, Manhattan, Kansas. 

2013-14 The Museum of Rural Life, Mark Priest: Harriet Tubman, The Underground railroad The Building of Stewart’s Canal, Denton, MD (1 year exhibit) 

2015 Cressman Center, Narrative of the early years of Frederick Douglass: Drawing Series, Louisville, KY 

2015 Allen R. Hite Gallery, Life of a Freedom Seeker: Paintings Drawings and prints of Harriet Tubman and other freedom seekers, Louisville KY 

2017-18 American Labor Museum, Frederick Douglass: Drawings & Paintings, 

2023 Haledon, NY (8-month exhibition) Carnegie Museum, Sydney’s Choice – Still & Nalle series, New Albany, Ind. (4-mos) American Labor Museum, Sydney’s Choice –Still Series, Haledon, NJ (4-mos) 

 

Group Exhibitions 

1982 Eight State Exhibition, J. B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY 11 

1983 Potpourri Exhibition, Louisville, KY 

1984 Perry Hill Gallery, The Water Tower, Louisville, KY 

1984 Kentucky Painters of the Southern Tradition, J. B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY 

1984 The First National Bank's Black Artists' Exhibition, First Ntnl Bank, Louisville, KY 

1985 Annual Black Artists' Exhibition, Louisville, KY, 1985 Realism, 

Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Evansville, IN 

1986 The Painted Persona, Natalini Gallery, Chicago, IL 

1986 Contemporary Black Artists of Louisville, Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Evansville, IN. 

1987 Annual Black Artists' Exhibition, Louis. KY, Merit Award 

1987 Water Tower Annual, The Water Tower Association, Louis. KY 

1989 A+A Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, CT 

1990 10th Annual Black Artists Exhibition, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY 

1990 African-American Contemporary Art, Civic Museum of Contemporary Art, Palermo, Italy 

1991 Three by Three Exhibition, Maitland Art Museum, Maitland, FL 

1991 Kentucky on Paper, Kingman Foundation Gallery, Diego de Almargo y Padera, Quito, Ecuador 

1994 Floyd County Museum of Art, New Albany, IN 

1994 New Works, Heike Pickett Gallery, Lexington, KY 

1995 African American Kentuckian Exhibition, Owensboro, KY 

1995 Heike Pickett Gallery, New Works Lexington, KY 

1995 Afro-American Group Exhibition, Actors Theater Gallery, Louisville, KY 

1996 UPS, United Parcel Service Gallery, Louisville, KY 

1996 Kresge Art Museum, Michigan, MI. 

1997 UPS Gallery, Louisville, KY. 

1997 " What One is Worth", An Exhibition of a Labor Theme, 

Northwest Folk life Festival Seattle Center Pavilion. Seattle, Washington. 

1998 University of Louisville Faculty Group Show, Northern, KY. 

1998 University of Louisville Faculty Show, Univ. Cinn., Ohio. 

1998 Representation Painters Exhibition Series, University of Louisville, Belknap Gallery KY. 

1999 "Flesh in - Action" Group Show Exhibition, Fort Points Arts Community Gallery. Boston, Mass. 

2000 Vermont Studio, Group Show, Johnson, Vermont 

2001 African American Artist's group show, University of Indiana Southeast 

2001 Belknap Gallery Faculty Group Show, University of Louisville, KY. 

2001 Armory Art Center, Group Exhibition, West Palm Beach, Fl. 

2002 Faculty Group Exhibition, Belknap Gallery, Univ. of Louisville, KY. 

2002 Water Tower Group Exhibition, " Faces", KY. 

2005 13th Annual Jack E. Lunt Memorial Invitational Exhibition. Ervin Houchens Gallery, Bowling Green, KY 12 

2005 Human Element, The Puffin Cultural Forum, Teaneck, NJ

2006 Southern Exposure University of Louisville, University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonie, Wisconsin

2007 John Parker Series, The John Parker Museum, Ripley, Ohio

2008 The Story, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, Florida

2013 "Struggles and Triumph," Rotunda Art Project, Metro Hall, Underground Railroad Series, Louisville, KY.

2015 State of Painting, Georgetown College Fine Arts Galleries, Georgetown KY

2015 Kentucky Visions at the Capitol 2015, Frankfort, KY

2016 State of Painting, Georgetown College Art Galleries, Georgetown ,KY

2018 Louisville Artists, Janice Mason Art Museum, Cadiz, KY

2018 Louisville Artists: Carry On, LVA, Louisville KY

2019 Motivation by Inspiration: A Black History Month Exploration, Harmony Hall Arts Center, Fort Washington, MD

2023 Perspectives 2023, Moreman Gallery, Louisville KY

2025 Meeting, Shaker Village, Pleasant Hill KY

2025 Dividends Kentucky Arts Council Grantee Retrospective. Richmond, KY

 

Honors

1983 Merit Award, Potpourri Exhibition, Louisville, KY

1984 Purchase Award, Best of Show, Annual Black Artists' Exhibition, Louisville, KY

1987 Merit Award, Most Promising Artist, The Annual Black Artists' Exhibition, Louisville, KY

1987 Judith Hall Award, Louisville, KY

1987 Winthrop Allen Memorial Award, University of Louisville, KY 

1987 Ford Material Grant, Yale University, New Haven, CT

1987 Yale Tuition Scholarship, Yale University, New Haven, CT 

1988 Arnold Bittleman Prize, Yale University, New Haven, CT

1988 Ford Material Grant, Yale University, New Haven, CT

1988 Yale Tuition Scholarship, Yale University, New Haven, CT

1989 The Alice Kimball English Traveling Fellowship Award, Yale Univ., New Haven, CT

1994 Merit Award, Floyd County Museum of Art, New Albany, IN

1994 Research Grant, University of Louisville, KY 

1994 Project Completion Grant, University of Louisville, KY

2000 Women Research Grant, University of Louisville, KY 

2000 Vermont Residency Fellowship, Johnson, Vermont.

2001 Project Completion Grant, University of Louisville, KY 

2003 Women Research Grant, University of Louisville, KY

2005 African American Faculty Mini Grant, University of Louisville, KY 

2005 Sabbatical Awarded for 2006

2006 President’s Initiative Research Grant, University of Louisville, KY 

2007 Project Completion Grant, University of Louisville, KY

2008 Commission on Racial Equality and Diversity Grant, Univ. of Louisville, KY 

2009 Al Smith Individual Artist Fellowship, KAC, Frankfort, KY 

2010 Initiative Research Grant, University of Louisville, KY 

2010 Project Completion Grant, University of Louisville, KY

2012 Sabbatical Awarded for 2013 

2014 Project Completion Grant, University of Louisville, KY 

2015 Commission on Racial Equality and Diversity Grant, Univ. of Louisville, KY 

2016 Morgan Faculty Research Grant, University of Louisville, KY 

2016 Research and Creative Activity Grant, University of Louisville, KY 

2018 Sabbatical Awarded for 2020 utilized in 2021 due to pandemic. 

 

Articles, Reviews and Brochures 

Feature, "Work in Art," The Daily Progress, Charlottesville, VA, April 11, 1991 

 

Feature, "'David,' by Mark Priest- on view 2nd Street Gallery during the month of April," Albemarle, Charlottesville, VA, April - May 1991 

 

Feature, "Public Art Collection is four works richer," The Orlando Sentinel, Orlando, FL, December 22, 1991 

 

Feature, "Artist's work on the railroad lays tracks for painting career," The Orlando Sentinel, Orlando, FL, January 16, 1992 

 

Feature, "Celebration of heritage," The Daily Journal, New Smyrna Beach, FL, February 11, 1992 

 

Feature, "Bold, realistic art at Harris House," The Observer, New Smyrna Beach, FL, February 13, 1992 

 

Feature, "Germano opens exhibit at SCC," Sanford Herald, Sanford, FL. January 31, 1993 

 

Feature, "From railroad tracks to Yale Art School," Takoma Voice, Silver Springs, MA, September 5, 1994 

 

Feature, "Artist Priest Images Powerfully Portray M of W Workers," BMWE Journal, Southfield, Michigan. October 1994 

 

Feature, "Memories On Track: Paintings of a Railway Artist," Labors Heritage, Silver Spring, MD. Quarterly No. 2 October 1994 

 

Feature, "A Portrait of Family and Friends," Encore, Louisville, KY, December 1994 

 

Feature, "Art series celebrates those who built our nation's railroads," The Louisville Cardinal, Louisville, KY. January 12,1995 

 

Feature, "Paintings portray the railroad worker as an American hero," The Louisville Cardinal, Louisville, KY. January 12, 1995 

 

Feature, "Researchers honored as Young Investigators," Inside U of L, Louisville, KY. January 20, 1995 

 

Review, "University of Louisville Morris Belknap and Dario Covi Galleries," The Courier-Journal, Sunday January 29, 1995 

 

Feature, "Drawn to the Tracks," Louisville, Louisville, KY, January 1995 

 

Feature, "African American artist put work on display", Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Kentucky, August 25, 1995

 

Feature, "Rail Art: Artist uses toil on railroad as inspiration" MSU State News No. 7, Lansing, Michigan, Feb 15 1996

 

Feature, "Art On Track: Artist Mark Priest Brings Epic Art of Railroad Labor to Michigan State". Lansing State Journal, Lansing, MI. Feb 16, 1996

 

Feature, "Kentucky Artist a big Draw", The Evening Herald, of Ireland. October 1996

 

Feature, "A Bold Tribute To Laborers" Working on railroad inspired paintings, The Cincinnati Enquirer " TEMPO" November 24, 1996

 

Feature, "Worker of the world, relax! "His Art Stays On Track", (UAW) Solidarity Detroit, Michigan No. 30 May 1996. 

 

Review, "Iron Men, Steel Rail: Track Labor and the Art of Mark Priest", Studio San Giuseppe Art Gallery, College of Mount St. Joseph. Dialogue: Art in the Midwest, (Jan / Feb 1997): 29 

 

Review, "Iron Men, Steel Rail: Track Labor and the Art of Mark Priest", The Italian Voice, (February 6, 1997):

 

Review, Horvitz, Lee. "Iron Men. Steel Rail: Track Labor and the Art of Mark Priest" Antenna Arts Magazine. (February 1997): 10 -11. 

 

Review, American Labor Museum, "Iron Men. Steel Rail: Track Labor and the Art of Mark Priest" NJEA (March 1997). 

 

Exhibition Announcement, The Jersey Journal (March 14, 1997). 

 

Exhibition Announcement, The New York Times (March 16, 1997)  

 

Review, In The Arts, "Michelangelo of the rails at Meany Center"(August 5, 1998) Page B-3 

 

Review, Montgomery Gazette "Working on the railroad" (Aug 7, 1998) C7 

 

Review, The Washington Post, "'Steel-Drivin' Women' Mark Priest Puts Muscle Into his Works on life on the Railroad"(August 13, 1998) C5, Col. 1 

 

Review of work. News Night with Anchor Bob Althage. Maryland Public Television Sept. 1998) 

 

Announcement of and showing of work on WKYT TV News, Washington D.C. 

 

Radio Interview, N.P.R. Morning Edition with Bob Evans, (Sept 7,1998) Washington, D.C. 

 

Exhibition Announcement, Lexington Herald - Leader, Visual Arts (Sept 13, 1998) H2 

 

Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, "Working on the Railroad" (Oct 16, 1998) p B 108 

 

Review, Kernel Entertainment Guide "Working on the Railroad"(Jan. 19, 1999) p7 

 

Exhibition Announcement, Lexington Herald - Leader, Nation and World (Feb. 4, 1999) p. A4 

 

Review, Kernel Entertainment Guide "A room with a view", (Feb. 4, 1999) pg. 1 

 

Review, Art News for Teachers. " Mark Priest: The Railroad Labor Series" (Winter 1999) pp 1-2 

 

Review, Lexington Herald - Leader " Museum showing State's talents"(Feb. 7, 1999) p k4 

 

Review, Kentucky Kernel. "Priest gives taste of life on rails" (Feb 8, 1999) p 3 

 

Review, Labors Heritage. (Vol. 10 / No. 1) 

 

Feature, “Speaking of Art: 14 Kentuckians discuss their work in new KET series, ”The Courier Journal, (December 2, 2001) pp A1, I1, I6 

 

Feature, “Drawing and Painting the Figure From Life”, Master Artists Workshops. The Robert and Mary Montgomery Armory Art Center. (2002) pp25-26

 

Feature, American Labor Museum To Honor Railroad Women and Railroad Artist Mark Priest, New York Labor History Association (Fall 2002) 

 

Review, "Heroism often all in a day's work" Sept. 1, 2002, New Jersey News Paper 

 

Review, The Shopper New, Botto House Open Exhibition, H 46, Sept. 4, 2002 

 

Feature, “Celebrating the Jobs We Do: Original Murals Grace New International Headquarters” TWU Express, December 31, 2003, p10, 11 

 

Review, Art Headlines "Rail Road Artist Story Teller" F. 6 Dayton Daily News, Sept. 12, 2004 Dayton, Ohio. 

 

Feature, Heavy Metal; Mark Priest paints life on the railroad. The Sacramento Bee. (February 1, 2005) pp 10-11 

 

Brochure, “Mark Priest, Laborers of the Railroad”. 40 Acres Art Gallery and The California Railroad Museum. 2005 

 

Feature, “Noted Painter Exhibits New Series” by Pat Guida, Caroline Review (February 2007) p8 

 

Exhibition Announcement, Times-Record, Caroline County (February 7, 2007) pA15 

 

Feature, “Paintings in Denton depict Underground Railroad” The Star Democrat (February 16, 2007) p7 

 

Feature, “Life of Underground Railroad conductor depicted in exhibit.” The Ripley Bee (May 31, 2007) Vol.164 No. 22 pA1, A3 

 

Feature, “Parker Society unveils images of Elizabeth J. Cloyd Exhibit”, The Ripley Bee (June 14, 2007) Vol.164 No. 24 pA1, A8 

 

Feature, The Story”, Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, (2007) p23 

 

Review, “Brush up Tubman’s Life, Painter’s exhibit heroes trailblazer”, The Courier Journal (March 14,2009) 

 

Exhibition Announcement, “Underground Railroad, with Works by Mark Priest”’. What’s Up? Eastern Shore Magazine (March 2009) p18 

 

Review, ”Artist honors Tubman in Show at DCA”, The Courier Journal (March 13,2009) 

 

Review,” Artist tells Tubman Stories in Vivid Color “, The Star Democrat (April 2, 2009) 17 

 

Feature, “Underground Railroad Conference convenes in Troy” Columbia Paper (Feb. 16, 2010) 

 

Feature, “A Fugitive Slave Rescued: Paintings of Charles Nalle." New York History. N.p., 22 Feb, 2010. Web. 04 Sept. 2012. <http://www.newyorkhistoryblog.com/>. 

 

Feature, “Telling story of Freedom Won”, Times Union. Albany, New York (February 26, 2010) pA1, A11 

 

Announcement, Steigerwald, Shauna. "Studio San Giuseppe Exhibit Features Underground Railroad Works - Share Story." Cincinnati.com. N.p., 8 Sept.

 

2010. Web. 04 Sept.2012. <http://local.cincinnati.com/share/news/story.aspx?sid=170893>. Feature, “Mark Priest and the Underground Railroad”, Dateline. Cincinnati, Ohio (October 2010) p3 

 

Announcement, Mark Priest’s ‘The Iron Men’ Join Workers Culture Collection: Reception Monday, 2/13, 5pm. Michigan State University Museum. (2012)

 

Announcement, Mark Priest’s ‘The Iron Men’ Join Workers Culture Collection: Reception Monday, 2/13, 5pm. Michigan State University Museum. (2012)

 

Review, Shields, Heather W. "Legend To Be Honored Along MD's Eastern Shore." Wbal.com. N.p., 8 Mar. 2013. Web. 09 Mar. 2013. 

 

Review, "Muse of Her People." Baltimore Magazine. N.p., n.d. Web. 09 Mar. 2013. 

 

Feature, "Mark Priest." Louisville Visual Art Association. N.p., 8 Oct. 2013. Web. Oct. 2013 

 

Feature, "One Question | Mark Priest, Professor of Painting." The Courier-Journal. N.p., 3 Aug. 2013. Web. Aug. 2013. 

 

"Struggle and Triumph Focus of New Exhibit at Metro Hall - 2013 - LouisvilleKy.gov." Struggle and Triumph Focus of New Exhibit at Metro Hall - 2013 - LouisvilleKy.gov. N.p., 25 July 2013. Web. July 2013. 

 

Feature, Taylor, Kaylyn. "Arts-Louisville.com: Social, Political and Personal Themes Connect in the Work of Three Artists at Metro Hall." Arts-Louisville.com: Social, Political and Personal Themes Connect in the Work of Three Artists at Metro Hall. N.p., 21 Aug. 2013. Web. Aug. 2013. 

 

Feature, Triplett, Jo Anne "ART: Priest's 'Underground Railroad' Covers Vast Territory - LEO Weekly." LEO Weekly. N.p., 04 Feb. 2015. Web. 04 Feb. 2015. 18 

 

Feature, Triplett, Jo Anne. "A Q&A with Artist Mark Priest - LEO Weekly." LEO Weekly. N.p., 13 Feb. 2015. Web. 14 Feb. 2015. 

 

Feature, Kramer, Elizabeth. "Painting Vivid History; Artist Mark Priest Studies Frederick Douglass, Others For Striking Series On Slavery." The Courier-Journal [Louisville] 15 Feb. 2015, Arts Section I sec.: 11-12. Print. 

 

Announcement "U of L Conference to Focus on Issues Facing Black Families - 89.3 WFPL." 893 WFPL. N.p., 16 Feb. 2015. Web. 18 Feb. 2015. 

 

Announcement, "U of L Event to Promote Black Empowerment." The Courier-Journal. N.p., 17 Feb. 2015. Web.

 

Exhibition Announcement, “visit A Participating Museum For Free on 9/23/17.” Smithosonian.com , Smithsonian Institution, Sept. 2017, www.smithsonianmag.com/museumday/venues/museum/american-labor-museumbotto-house-national-landmark-2K8/. 

 

Announcement, The Still Family Saga: Seeking Freedom exhibit by Mark Priest 2023 

https://pix11.com/calendar/?_escaped_fragment_=/show/?start=2022-06-05#!/details/The-Still-Family-Saga-Seeking-Freedom-exhibit-by-Mark-Priest/11866074/2023-05-01T19 

 

Feature, Recker, Scott. " Artist Mark Priest Creates a Detailed Examination of the Underground Railroad at the Carnegie Center” LEO Weekly. LEO Weekly. 21 Sept. 2023. https://www.leoweekly.com/2023/09/artist-mark-priest-creates-a-detailed-examination-of-the-underground-railroad-at-the-carnegie-center/ 

 

Workshops, Demonstrations, or Lectures

1990-92 Drawing workshop for high school teachers, Lake Mary High School, LakeMary, FL

1992 Painting workshop, Harris House Gallery, New Smyrna Beach, FL (Spring) 

1996 Slide lecture of work. Athy, County Kildare, Ireland. 

1996 Slide lecture of work. Clare, County Kildare, Ireland. 

1996 Slide Lecture of work to VTOS (vocational training program for art students) Newbridge, County Kildare, Ireland 

1996 Conducted Art workshop. (2 weeks) for the Wheelchair Society. County Kildare, Ireland 

1996 Conducted an Art workshop (2 week) with VTOS students County Kildare, Ireland. 

1996 Public talk and Slide presentation on my development as an artist. Michigan State University. 

1996 Slide presentation of work at Eastern High School, Lansing Public Schools, Lansing, Michigan. 

1996 Museum lecture for East Lansing High School, Lansing, Michigan. 

1996 "Worker's Culture" MSU Museum. School of Labor and Industrial Relations. 

1996 Slide presentation of current works, " The Eighteenth Annual 

Great Labor Arts Exchange" 3-day conference on the music, drama, and working men and women. 

1996 Invited to participate in "Career Day", lecturing on the topic "Careers in Art". Male High School. 

1997 Slide presentation and gallery talk of current work, Walter P. Reuther, The College of Urban and Metropolitan Affairs Wayne State University. 

1997 Gallery Presentation, American Labor Museum, Haledon, NJ 

1997 Slide Presentation of recent work, University of Texas at El Paso, Fox Fine Art Gallery. El Paso, Texas. 

1998 Slide Presentation of recent work, George Meany Center for Labor Studies 

1999 Slide Presentation of recent work, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 

1999 Gallery Presentation, University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY 

2002 Armory Art Center Catalog Exhibition, West Palm Beach, FL 

2005 Slide Lecture of Artwork. Central Kentucky Art Guild, Elizabethtown, KY 

2007 Gallery Presentation, Underground Railroad featuring Harriet Tubman Exhibition, Denton Museum, MD 

2009 Gallery Presentation, Dorchester Art Center, Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad, Cambridge, MD 20 

2009 Panel speaker, Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Discussion Group, Cambridge Historical Society, MD 

2010 Slide Lecture of Artwork. Mount St. Joseph College, Studio Giuseppe Art Gallery Cincinnati, OH 

2010 Workshop, “Art of History Student Workshop”, Troy, NY 

2013 Gallery Lecture, Underground Railroad featuring Harriet Tubman & Stewarts Canal, Exhibition, Denton Museum, MD 

2014 Presentation of Drawings, “Freedom Seeker: Early life of Frederick Douglass”, Frederick Douglass Honor Society, Easton, MD 

2014 Uncommon Wealth Lecture Series, Al Smith Fellowship Recipient slide lecture and questions & answers, Living Arts and Science Center, Lexington KY 

2015 Center for Arts and Culture Partnerships, video presentation and questions & answers University Club. University of Louisville, KY 

2015 Gallery Lecture for Mount St. Joseph College (Ohio) students, Underground Railroad featuring Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass & Stewarts Canal, Exhibition, Belknap & Cressman Gallery

2015 Gallery Lecture for Manual High School Art students, Underground Railroad featuring Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass & Stewarts Canal, 

Exhibition, Belknap & Cressman Gallery 

2015 Slide Lecture for Collegiate School Art students, Underground Railroad featuring Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass & Stewarts Canal, Exhibition, at Collegiate School, Louisville KY 

2015 Gallery Lecture for Black Family Conference Kickoff Event, Underground Railroad featuring Frederick Douglass Exhibition, at Collegiate School, Louisville KY 

2017 Nine Gallery Lecture for the Exhibition, Frederick Douglass: Drawings & Paintings, featuring Frederick Douglass early life as an enslaved person, at Labors Heritage Museum, Haledon, NY 

2023 Gallery Lecture for The Still Family Saga: Seeking Freedom Exhibit at Labors Heritage Museum, Haledon, NY 

2023 Five Gallery Lectures for The Underground Railroad: The Still Family & Charles 21 Nalle exhibition. Carnegie Center, New Albany, Indiana.

2026 Iolani School. 3 Lectures to African American History and Painting Students and faculty. Honolulu Hawaii.

 

Videos 

2001 Looking at Painting #102, KET TV. Lexington, KY

 

2005 Visual Arts Toolkit. KET TV. Lexington, KY

 

2007 Artworks: This Week, 637 Maryland Public Television (MPT.Org)

 

2008 Harriet Tubman and the Art of Mark Priest

 

2010 C-Span Freeing Charles March 21, 2010

 

2015 "Underground Railroad 2015: Life of a Freedom Seeker." YouTube. University of Louisville, 06 Feb. 2015. Web. Feb. 2015. 

 

2017 Video Feature, Seiler, Casey. “Scott Christianson, 69, Acclaimed Journalist, Author and Advocate. “ Times Union, 16 May 2017, 4:35, 

www.timesunion.com/news/article/Scott-Christianson-69-acclaimed-journalist- 11149980.php. 

 

2022 Sydney Still: "Sydney's Choice". Permanent ongoing narrative video with multiple drawing and painting images of the account along with a dialogue. This video plays in the Underground Railroad site the Still home. Which opened in June 2022.

 

2025 PBS Learning Media: The Escape of Charles Nalle/ From Slavery to Freedom in New York State. Video with image use for Charles Nalle Series. 

 

IMAGES IN PRINT

2008 The National Parks Service. “The Underground Railroad: Maryland’s Network To Freedom Guide”. Guide cover image, ”Harriet Tubman - Escape From Poplar Neck II”.

 

2009 Image, ”Harriet Tubman-Escape From Poplar Neck II”, Guide Cover Image. The National Parks Service.” Underground Railroad: Maryland’s Network to Freedom Guide”. “Harriet Tubman-Escape From Poplar Neck II” 

 

2009 Book Cover Image. “Freeing Charles: The Struggle to Free a Slave on the Eve of the Civil War”, by Scott Christianson, University of Illinois Press. 

 

2010 Journal article Image. “The Rescue of Charles Nalle” pp 20-23, By Scott Christianson. New York Archives. Volume 10 number 1 Summer 2010. 

 

2010 Book Image. “Railroads in the African-American Experience: A Photographic Journey” pp372, 414,415, by Theodore Kornweibel. The John Hopkins Univ. Press. 22 

 

2011 Newspaper image of, “The Altruist”, painting. The Dispatch: Rioting in Troy! Fugitive Slave Escapes Tubman Reportedly Involved. Vol. 28 Number 2 p1 Images, Harriet Tubman-Escape From Poplar Neck II, Bailey’s Escape From Jamaica Point, & Harriet Tubman with Freedom Seekers. The images will be used as teaching tools. The National Parks Service. Underground Railroad: Maryland’s Network to Freedom Visitor Centers. Printed for use. 2012 

 

Road Markers on the National Parks Departments. Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway and State Park in Maryland. 2013

 

Centennial Poster using painted image “Tubman’s December 1856 Rescue”. The National Parks Department. 2013

 

Brochure, image of, “Poplar Neck Escape I”, in the Join the Journey 2013 Harriet Tubman Centennial Commemoration.

 

Book Image: True Book Series: Harriet Tubman, Scholastic Inc. Image, “ Nalle series – The Altruist”. Release date September 2015.

 

Guide Cover Image. The National Parks Service. “ The Underground Railroad: Maryland’s Network to Freedom Guide”. “Harriet Tubman – portrait drawing ” 2016.

 

Six Visitor Center Exhibition Images: Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park and Visitor Center. Images: The Auction, Timber Crew, Building Stewart’s Canal, Bucktown Store Skirmish, Escape From Poplar Neck, 1854 Flight to Freedom. 2016.

 

Charles Nalle Walking Memorial image use of Charles Nalle series artworks in a permanent walking tour memorial of Charles Nalle. Zinn Educational Project: Teaching People's History. Image use for Charles Nalle series artwork in an educational program 2025

 

Permanent Collections

Denton Museum, Maryland (Escape from Poplar Neck II)

University of Louisville (Freedom Seeker (print),

University of Louisville (1s t & State Street)

University of Louisville (Dover 8, I & II (prints)

Michigan State University Museum (Iron Men)

Denton Museum, Maryland (Dover 8)

Sylvia Anderson, Washington, D. C. (Escape From Poplar Neck I)

The T.W.U. Transportation Workers Union, New York. (Mural)

The John Parker House (5 paintings)

The American Labor Museum (Botto House) Haledon, New Jersey.

George Meany Center, Silver Spring, Maryland.

County Kildare Arts Council, Ireland.

Hilliard Lyons Inc. Louisville, KY.

College of Mount St., Joseph, Studio San Giuseppe Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

Brown-Forman Corporation, Louisville, KY

West Palm Beach International Airport, West Palm Beach, FL

Orlando City Hall, FL

Mrs. Patricia Landry, Sorrento, FL

University of Louisville, KY (The Hunters (painting))

First National Bank Collection, Louisville, KY

Kentucky Fried Chicken Collection, Louisville, KY

Links Collection, Louisville, KY

Art Museum of West Virginia, Roanoke, VA