Remembering: Renowned Atlanta-based visual artist Tamara Natalie Madden
Spelman’s Tamara Natalie Madden Painted Ordinary People of African Ancestry Into Royalty "Ten years ago I received a kidney transplant, from my wonderful brother, that saved my life, and that same year I participated in my first art exhibition. I have had many accomplishments in the last 10 years, and I can only hope that ten years from now my art will be making more of a difference in the lives of my people." Tamara Natalie Madden, Jamaican-born painter and mixed-media artist at Spelman College in Atlanta, has died. She was 42. The Tom M. Wages Funeral Home outside Atlanta confirmed her death, saying she died as a result of ovarian cancer at her home in Snellville, Georgia, on Nov. 4. Madden was known for her artwork focusing on the social, spiritual and cultural identity of people of African ancestry — and her paintings that transformed ordinary people into royalty, the funeral home said in a statement Friday. She has said the golden he...