Tyree Brown- Fine Artist 

Throughout my life God has protected me from many things that could have pulled me away from my passion, art. In junior high school my 8th grade teacher saw my art and noticed how strong of a passion I had towards it. He urged me to apply to the Center for Visual and Performing Arts at Suitland High School. I was blessed to be accepted into that high school where my artistic learning truly began.
During the summer of 2012, after my junior year of high school I applied to the Maryland Institute College of Art summer pre-college program where I studied painting. This program not only prepared me for the college experience, but really put an extra boost in the journey I would take for my artistic career.
​In 2013 I graduated high school and attended the Corcoran College of the Arts and Design. I studied Fine Art, focusing on painting and drawing. I took drawing classes under the artist, Peter Bottger and painting classes under the artist, Janis Goodman. The Corcoran opened my understanding about art and further excelled my artistry by providing a platform of opportunities within the art world. I completed my first two years at the Corcoran before being injured in a car accident in 2015.

God sets a pace for us in our lives, at times we tend to run ahead too fast, so we forget God, but through it all God finds a way where we can run his pace and still get where we need to be. On May 16, 2015, I was in a car accident that injured my spinal cord leaving me tetraplegic also known as quadriplegic. Tetraplegia (or quadriplegia), a paralysis injury that resulted in partial loss of function in all four of my limbs. The beginning of my injury was really tough, not knowing the mobility I would recover. The injury drastically affected every area of my life. My dominant right hand was affected the most, the hand I once used to draw with couldn’t make any functional movements. Through occupational therapy I learned to function solely with my left hand even with its limited mobility.