The late Charles Farrar is an internationally celebrated wood artist whose artworks honor the valuable skills and creative abilities that enslaved Africans brought with them to the North and South American continents. Farrar’s fine art vessels hold and emotionally convey ideas and concepts. Farrar tapped into the universal symbols of totality, wholeness and timeliness to open the viewer’s eyes to the expansiveness of the cycles in time, life and nature itself. His works evoke a sense of wonder as they mirror the aesthetic standard of today while also providing a window into the historical context of the time.

Farrar’s work is held in significant corporate and museum collections including The White House Collection, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Bank of America, the David Geffen Playhouse, Los Angeles; Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, and is held on permanent loan at the U.S. Embassy in Madagascar by the U.S. State Department. His work is also in the private collections of former Essence magazine editor Susan Taylor, actress Debbie Allen, retired General Wesley Clark, and the John & Vivian Hewitt Collection of African-American Art.