Columbus native Amy Sherald on cover of Time’s first art power list. Where to see her work - COMU • The Columbus Museum

Columbus native Amy Sherald on cover of Time’s first art power list. Where to see her work

Amy Sherald, the Columbus-born artist who painted former first lady Michelle Obama’s official portrait, is on the inaugural TIME100 Art list and is the first living painter to appear solo on the magazine’s cover in 50 years.

Sherald remembers being one of only several Black students attending a private school in Columbus. According to the National Museum of Women in Art, she credits this experience as shaping how she thinks about race and identity in her work.