Tami Curtis Blues Masters at the Crossroads 20 Poster

The rich history, music and culture of the blues are reflected in Louisiana artist Tami Curtis’ acrylic painting commemorating the 20th Anniversary Blues Masters at the Crossroads. The painting of Bobby Rush, Charlie Musselwhite, C.J. Chenier and Lucky Peterson is featured in a series of three official concert poster prints.

Curtis is known for using vibrant colors and marked brushstrokes. She’s created portraits of many famed South Louisiana musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Irma Thomas, Professor Longhair and Allen Tousaint. She’s created paintings and posters for such high-profile events as the New Orleans French Quarter Festivals, Tab Benoit’s Voice Of The Wetlands, and the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise featuring Charlie Musselwhite, Keb’ Mo’, Taj Mahal and others. She was also commissioned to do a painting for the Blues Hall of Fame in Memphis, which was showcased in Billboard magazine.

Curtis has appeared at many past Blues Masters and will be returning to sell her paintings for our 20th Anniversary celebration. She’s a Louisiana native, spending her childhood in Hornbeck and Leesville, before living in Ruston, Monroe, Baton Rouge and New Orleans. After years of owning art-based businesses and then teaching art at Fontainebleau High School in Mandeville, she entered the art market scene. Today, her gallery and studio is located on the famous Magazine Street of New Orleans and is open to the public. Her work is represented in galleries across Southern Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Illinois and Alabama, and is in the collections of patrons from New York to California, as well as overseas.

Tami received her BA in art education and a BFA in graphic design from Louisiana Tech University. Besides teaching and managing her New Orleans gallery, she’s also served as the education coordinator for the New Orleans Museum of Art. Her love of color comes in part from her father, Ray Curtis, first a self-taught artist and later a high school art teacher.

“He (my father) was always a mentor to me … He made me see the color beyond the color,” she says, citing an example when he showed her how a crow’s wings contain more than just the color black.

Curtis always starts her paintings on a canvas she’s primed with black paint. She says the technique makes the other colors more intense because it creates a contrast.

“When people ask me ‘How long did it take you to paint that?’ I now respond, ‘All my life.’ The confidence I have about my work is a result of a lifetime of joys and disappointments.”

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