Lucious Webb was born and educated in Covington, Georgia. At Howard University he initially focused on architectural design and graphic arts as well as acquiring his teaching credentials. As a fine arts student, his Howard instructors included: Lois Mailou Jones, James Porter, David Driskell, and James Wells, who well equipped him for his future art career. After receiving his BFA degree, he taught art in the Washington, DC school system for five years, during which time he married his first wife and began raising their family. The building trades were also a part of Lucious’s DNA, and with those skills worked as a Housing Rehabilitation Adviser for the City of Atlanta and a building inspector for Dekalb County, Georgia. But he never abandoned his creative interests, and focused on developing his skills with various forms of sculptures well into his retirement years. One of which was their award winning, “sculpted paintings”, an art collaborative with his wife, painter, Charlotte. Lucious designed and created the works from exterior fir wood and turned them over to his wife to paint. Their award winning, “Sounds of Perpetual Spring” was permanently  installed in the downtown concert district of Hampton, VA. Among Lucious' artistic achievements was his invitation to the Smithsonian Museum to demonstrate and display his “twig sculpture” medium, which he developed during workshops at Tugaloo College. Lucious has exhibited  his bas-relief and twig sculptures in several art spaces, including, The Tubman Museum, Douglasville Arts Center, The Montgomery Interpretive Center, Shorter College, and at the NAAHBCU Conference in Fayetteville, NC. By placing the human figure in a historical setting, Webb sought to inspire and provoke a narrative, and his unique way of chronicling history through art is a testament to his beliefs, patience and perserverance.

 

Although he has passed, Lucious Webb’s kind, honorable spirit and the legacy of his work lives on.