The library features a collection of original art and corresponding art-books collection by international black artists and their teachers. The following artists are featured in the collection (representative list):
- Camille Billops, major African American sculptor, filmmaker, printmaker
- Whitfield Lovell, African American painter/collage artist
- Reggie Gammon, African American artist
- Queenie McKenzie, Australian aboriginal artist
- David Fludd, African American painter
- Albert Huie, Jamaican print master
- Amiri Baraka, poet, playwright, activist – and printmaker
- Michael Cummings, African American quilt artist
- Ronald Joseph, African American printmaker