Rosalind Wilcox is the youngest child of Ermer and Henry Wilcox. She was born in Chicago, Illinois. Her mother and father, Ermer Westerfield Wilcox, and Henry Wilcox were born and raised here in Mississippi. Both were raised on the farm, the son and daughter of Sharecroppers...both chopped cotton and sugar cane, and worked the fields picking crops: purple hull peas, crowder peas, and greens.

Visually impaired since age 22, Wilcox moved to Mississippi several times as an adult: Oxford, Holly Springs, Brookhaven, and now she resides in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Wilcox has shown art all over the nation and in Costa Rica and Jamaica. She has completed many large mural projects in homes, restaurants and nightclubs. Wilcox also sculpts, throws ceramics, paints, makes books, creates found object musical instruments, and jewelry.

Wilcox states, “I love Mississippi, can’t shake it, no matter how much some people don’t understand why I keep coming back, it’s in my blood, stories my mother and father told me started it, and the visits, but now it’s my own place, with my own experiences…I love the honesty of the people…the love of family, God, nature, and last but not least, real art and music.  She has been playing blues and gospel since she was 15 years old, so of course Clarksdale is the coolest town in the world for me….So enjoy my images, ask me about the stories…and just remember how great life is here in Mississippi.”

Exhibitions
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
DuSable Museum of Art, Chicago, Illinois
Southport Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Beacon Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Lincoln Regional Municipal Library, Brookhaven, Mississippi
Southside Gallery, Oxford, Mississippi
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Round River Gallery, Peoria, Illinois