Nelson Stevens

2013 Lifetime Achievement Winner

Nelson Stevens

Nelson Stevens, artist

The Foundation’s 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner is the 

celebrated artist, Nelson Stevens.  Nelson Stevens, born in 1938

is a native of Brooklyn, a painter and print maker, whose signature works are 

complex stylized figurative paintings, drawings, murals and 

prints that focus on his African-American culture, 

especially his interest in Jazz.

 Video 1: We met in 1977