Daniel Minter is a painter, illustrator, and educator whose body of work deals with themes of displacement and diaspora, spirituality, and the (re)creation of meanings of home.

Minter’s work has been featured and acquired in permanent collection by numerous institutions including the Portland Museum of Art, The Hood Museum of Art, The Charles H. Wright Museum, Tacoma Art Museum, Bates College Art Museum, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Bowdoin College Art Museum, Farnsworth Art Museum, Bates College Museum of Art, The David C. Driskell Center and the Northwest African American Art Museum. A founding board member of Illustration Institute, Minter is also co-founder of Indigo Arts Alliance, a non-profit dedicated to cultivating the artistic development of people of African descent.

Minter has illustrated over fifteen children’s books, many of them award winning, including the distinguished Caldecott Medal and the Coretta Scott King Illustration Honor.