Debi Black is a Christian artist.  She began earnestly painting in September of 2000.  She states, “Each gift you receive is a blessing from God.  I received two, my family and my ability to paint.”   She has attended numerous workshops and classes all over the nation.  She has studied at the Art Academy of Cincinnati and Purdue University where she obtained her BS.  She is currently working on a Masters Degree in Religious Art Education through Cincinnati Christian University and the Art Academy of Cincinnati. 

     In October 2007 she became one of the Artist of Aurora, Indiana.  They are a group of artist who created murals all over the city of Aurora to depict historical scenes of the community.       Today she has a gallery at the Rising Sun Pendleton Art Center.  She is represented at the Pendleton Newport Gallery on the Levee.  She paints at her gallery/studio in Aurora and at her studio in Milan, Indiana.       She has a religious theme to all her paintings and in each painting except the first painting she did in 1978, she has a feather somewhere depicting God watching over us through his army of angels. 

     Her art has been described as, “God's creation of the world defined through the eyes of the artist and inspired by God.”