Amanda Howell Whitehurst is a multidisciplinary artist whose work is defined by a distinct visual style she has named Mid-century Black—a term she originated to describe her personal approach to image-making. Drawing from the visual traditions of 1950s to 1970s commercial and lifestyle illustration, her work reinterprets that era through a lens that centers Black identity, beauty, and culture.

Mid-century Black is both a visual language and an artistic framework. Through this style, Whitehurst reclaims and reimagines a space in art history where Black representation was largely absent. Her illustrations, portraits, and narrative scenes blend vintage aesthetics with culturally specific storytelling, creating a body of work that is rooted in memory, style, and presence.

She works across digital and traditional media, including gouache and oil, maintaining a consistent and recognizable sensibility that defines the Mid-century Black style as her own.