Well-known artist Gilbert Young is featured in 2nd annual Black Arts and Film Festival

He Ain't Heavy by Gilbert Young

It shows the calibre of an event in our community when it draws such a renowned and talented artist as Gilbert Young, who has a lifetime of amazing work to his credit but is, perhaps, best known for his painting, He Ain't Heavy, which is been reproduced countless times and has been printed on t-shirts worn by well-known public figures.

 The Black Arts and Film Festival is in its second year, and it showed no shortage of fine works by immensely talented people. Probably the most well known of those people was Young, who lives in Atlanta and is originally from Cincinnati, where he served for almost three decades as conservator and director of the University of Cincinnati Fine Art Collection.

 In his years, as an artist, Young has built a reputation as a gifted and innovative artist. During a live performance on stage, he once painted Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra to create a commemorative work.

He has received many awards over the years. To have him in our community was such an honor. In the video, you can see an interview with him by Allen Buchanan of The Weekly Challenger.