Tiffany Black Behzad
Bringing people together through murals, design, and illustration
Services provided:
- Murals
- Design
- Digital & hand-drawn illustration
- Calligraphy
- Sign-painting
- Commissioned paintings on canvas
- Facilitated team-building events
- Paint parties for all ages
- Painting classes
Muralist, Illustrator & Community Artist
Tiffany Black is an award-winning artist currently based in Indianapolis, IN, specializing in collaborative and community-based projects. She has been creating large-scale works since 2003, and has painted over 40 murals in 8 states, many of them community-based. Black is Visiting Lecturer of Art at Franklin College, and adjunct Professor of Art at Ivy Tech Community College and Arkansas Tech University. She is a founding member of TLC Art Collective, a group of artists concerned with environmental and social justice.
In September 2021, Black began working with evacuees from Afghanistan at Camp Atterbury, IN, shortly after they were forced to flee their home country. She provided arts programming as Afghans awaited resettlement. Together, they created a painted mural titled August 15, in reference to the day the Taliban took control of Kabul. August 15 tells the story of how so many lives were forever changed on that day. This mural has embarked on a traveling exhibition throughout North America, and is raising funds for children left behind in Afghanistan.
Her terrazzo floor design, Over An Arkansas Sky, won the Judges’ Choice Award by the National Terrazzo & Mosaic Association in May 2023. Black was selected to design this 90’x20’ floor for the Bill & Hillary Clinton National Airport in Little Rock, AR. The design, created digitally, celebrates the natural world of Arkansas, which Black came to know and love in 2020 when she served as Artist-in-Residence and Visiting Professor of Art at Arkansas Tech University.
As a scenic artist in the television and film industries in New York City from 2018-2021, Black worked on productions including High Fidelity, The Politician, Younger, Manifest, and The Loudest Voice. She also created illustrations for David Rockwell Group and Head Over Heels on Broadway.
In 2013, Black earned her Masters of Fine Arts in Community Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). She was awarded four community engagement grants for her work through MICA. She used one of these grants to found Video Lab, a weekly program that opened the art school’s computer lab to residents of East Baltimore. From 2013-2020, Video Lab offered free workshops in video production and digital media.
Up next: AUGUST 15, a traveling mural exhibition created by Afghan evacuees in the US, continues to travel around the state. Contact Tiffany to book an exhibition.
Photo by Liz Chrisman / Arkansas Tech University