Norman Parish

Norman Parish (born New Orleans, raised in Chicago August 26, 1937 - July 8, 2013) was an American artist and art dealer. He was the founder and director of the Parish Gallery (founded in 1991 ) in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC. The gallery was described by The Washington Post as an art gallery "that spotlighted African American artists at a time when few other galleries concentrated on showing their work."

Education Parish studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Chicago. In the late 1960s, Parish and more than a dozen politically active African American artists in Chicago created a then controversial mural, known as The Wall of Respect, in Chicago’s South Side which 40 years later is now "credited with sparking the creation of other ethnic murals around the world." and Wadsworth Jarrell.