LaToya Hobbs is an artist, wife, and mother of two from Little Rock, Arkansas, who lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland. She earned a BA in painting from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and an MFA in printmaking from Purdue University. Her work deals with figurative imagery that addresses the ideas of beauty, cultural identity, and womanhood as they relate to women of the African Diaspora. She has exhibited at many institutions including the Baltimore Museum of Art, Harvard Art Museum, the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art and the National Gallery of Art in Windhoek, Namibia. Among her many honors are the Janet and Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize (2020), a nomination for the Queen Sonja Print Award (2022), and an IFPDA Artis Grant (2022). Hobbs serves as a professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art and a founding member of Black Women of Print, a collective whose vision is to make visible the narratives and works of Black women printmakers, past, present, and future.