DORIS C. COLBERT
Painting
Born on November 29, 1945 in Washington, D.C. She attended public school in Washington and later entered Howard University where she earned the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1968 and the Master of Fine Arts degree in 1973.
In her professional career as an artist/ teacher she has served in the faculty of Northern Virginia Community College, Workshops for Careers in the Arts at George Washington University and The University of Science and Technology at Kumasi, Ghana. Colbert came to teach painting at Howard as a Lecturer in 1977 and currently she is the Artist-in Residence.
As an extension of her active career as an artist, Doris Colbert has been a consultant and an evaluator of private and public art programs. She has exhibited in group and one-woman exhibitions in the United States and Ghana. They include the Jacob Ladder Gallery, Gallery One, The Washington Gallery of Art, The Inaugural Exhibition of the Association of Ghanaian Artists (Ashanti Region), and the Regional and National Exhibition for the Second Black and African Festival of Art and Culture (Ghana).