Black artists in comics, Alphonse Mucha-inspired pop-up tattoo salons, and an ode to Essex Hemphill are some of the upcoming exhibitions opening in D.C. this spring.

Michael Ray Charles is a contemporary American painter. His work explores historic African American stereotypes from the Antebellum South, appropriating images from advertising ... of today’s society, ...

and received a fellowship to Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan, where he eventually became head of the Design Department. Charles and Ray got married in 1941, and moved to California, where they ...