Dare Coulter
You’re gonna love this beautiful young artist and entrepreneur. You can’t spell “heart” without “art,” and Dare Coulter has worked to create a career that focuses around heart-felt presentations of the human experience, life, joy, and resilience. Dare is an award-winning professional sculptor, artist, muralist, and illustrator. Additionally, Dare was honored as the winner of the 2024 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Book Award. She has illustrated ten children’s books including Kwame Alexander’s “An American Story.” Dare creates imagery that reflects the fullness and vibrancy of the black cultural experience, and she focuses primarily on depictions of black people and families. Her most notable work includes a commissioned painting of Nina Simone for the National Trust for Historic Preservation that was used to raise funds to restore Nina Simone’s childhood home, and a 200-foot mural in Greensboro honoring oft-unmentioned black cowboys, and a monument to black joy and resilience on the campus of University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Dare served as the city of Raleigh’s first ever artist-in-residence in conjunction with its Bus Rapid Transit program. While Dare is pursuing her dream of creating monumental sculptures to black joy all over the world, she is having a great time visiting schools and painting murals, and sharing her passion for art with the world.
