Tommie Robinson uses church members as models

By Barbara Schreiber
Correspondent
Posted: Saturday, May. 04, 2013

If you're looking for pieties, don't go to Tommie Robinson.

Although he is working on some impressive paintings for the sanctuary at Charlotte's Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, his motivation is more sociological than religious.

This untitled set of six paintings is traditional in subject matter the Crucifixion, Judas betraying Jesus, Jesus' baptism, and related imagery but there is an important twist.

All the models are members of the church. Story continues

Tommie Robinson photo by T. Ortega Gaines