Higgins Bond

Artist Barbara Ann Higgins Bond has been illustrating for more than 25 years. Her art has been exhibited by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the DuSable Museum of African American History, and she is a member of the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame. A great deal of her illustrations have been seen on national TV from books to figurines to postage stamps, with an impressive list of clients that include the United States Postal Service, United Nations Postal Administration, The Smithsonian Institution, NBC and many more. Higgins-Bond's illustrations have been exhibited in many museums and she has appeared in interviews on television shows and in magazine articles about her illustrations. Higgins-Bond and her illustrations have received numerous awards and honors. A freelance illustrator with 26 years of experience illustrating books, magazines, posters, calendars,ads, collectors’ plates, brochures, figurines, dolls, and individual painting commissions. Barbara Ann Higgins Bond—whose professional name is Higgins Bond—is a nationally recognized illustrator and commercial artist whose most important works have concerned the history and struggles of African Americans. A pioneer freelance artist since the early 1970s, she has designed and illustrated cultural heritage stamps published by the U.S. Postal Service and the United Nations.