Our Board
Executive Director: Charlotte Ka
President: Errol Mobutu Reynolds
Board Members
Secretary: Lynne B
Treasurer: Janet Watkins
Carl Redwood
Mark Southers
Charlotte Ka, Executive Director
Charlotte Ka is a painter, educator, and gallerist, born in Pittsburgh. In the 1960s, she studied art at Cooper Union and was a member of the noted Black women’s art movement Where We At, a progressive collective promoting the inclusion of Black women in the mainstream art world. In 1974, Charlotte received her BFA in printmaking and painting from Carnegie Mellon. In 1998, Ka received her MFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art.
Hired by sculptor Selma Burke, Ka taught painting and drawing at The Selma Burke Art Center. She was also an art teacher in the Carnegie Museum’s Imaginarium program and an art instructor with the Roving Art Cart. Ka has worked with Robert Blackburn’s printmaking workshop for children in New York City.
She has exhibited in the USA and abroad, including shows at Kenkeleba House in New York, the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the August Wilson Museum, the Frick Art Museum, De Artes Plásticas in Havana, Cuba, and FESTAC 77 in Lagos, Nigeria. Ka has curated exhibits in both Africa and America. In 2015, she was awarded an Advancing the Black Arts Grant.
Errol M. Reynolds, Director
Errol Mobutu Reynolds is a self-taught mixed media artist, wood sculptor, leather artisan, teacher, and musician with a background in civil engineering. In the 1960s–70s, Reynolds was a member of several Hill District art collectives, including The Archive Institute of Creative Arts. The Archive served as an innovative hub with studios and an auditorium for artists, writers, and musicians. This led to an offer to move to Atlanta to work as a sculptor, art educator, and Georgia Council of Arts and Humanities Artist in Residence. This partnership launched him to become the Western Regional Coordinator for the Eighth Antilles Fair in Martinique. Notable participants included Romare Bearden, Angela Davis, and concert pianist John Ross. Reynolds won an award at the Antilles Fair for best sculpture.
Returning to Pittsburgh, Reynolds worked as an ironworker and welder, constructing buildings, bridges, highways, and superstructures, which continue to influence his creative output. With a musical career that includes working with Grant Green and George Benson, Reynolds’s expansive acrylic and oil works explore Pittsburgh’s rich musical history, of which he is still an active contributor. Reynolds’s sculptures and paintings also feature the interrelated cultural tapestries of America and Africa. Moka on Soho is a lifelong ambition, and Reynolds is delighted to share the gallery and his work with a diverse audience.