Artist, Ordained Minister, and Former Member of the National Black Feminist Organization
Deborah Singletary founded Vision Carriers in 1990 to support people in various stages of transition through astrology, art workshops, ceremonies and ritual. She identified as a feminist in 1975 when she joined the National Black Feminist Organization. Ordained as an interfaith minister in 2005, she says "At first, I thought my call to the ministry was separate from being an artist. Gradually, Singletary discerned that her work as a minister encompasses her passion for art. Both art and the ministry can pierce the veil that separates us from our true selves. Both art and the ministry have the power of dissolution and creation. This excites her.
The legacy of Harriet Tubman informs and inspires her concept of what it means to help others actualize their dreams and visions. Few people in the United States undergo the kind of danger and risks Tubman endured. However, learning to live authentically does take courage and insight if one is to overcome numbing societal and personal obstacles." An exhibiting artist, Deborah’s work has appeared in The New Yorker and New Woman magazines, The New York Daily News, Painting from the Source, (HarperCollins), Making What Your Means Can’t Buy (Vision Carriers Press) & Art’s Buoyant Felicity: An Anthology Art/Creativity/Healing (Evolutionary Girls). She was included in The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture’s major show, “Black New York Artists of the 20th Century.”