About Noirci Studio
Noirci Studio is an online gallery and marketplace for African American art and Black wall art, printed on archival canvas in the USA. We curate work that carries Black life, memory, and joy, and we pay the artist a royalty on every sale. Find it here, keep it, pass it down.
Where It Started
Robert Lawrence is a painter first. He wanted his work in real homes, not held back by gallery prices that put a single canvas out of reach for the people it was painted for. So he started printing his work on archival canvas, priced so a family could actually own it.
Why We Built a Marketplace for Black Artists
The first storefront was on Etsy. It worked for a while, but the platform limited how the work could grow, and the marketplace filled with AI-generated images and mass-produced prints shipped in cheap from overseas. Real work by real artists got buried under machine-made imitations competing on price alone.
Robert was not the only Black artist caught in that squeeze, priced out of galleries on one side and drowned out by knock-offs on the other, losing their days to shipping labels instead of the work. So he built the place he wished existed: a marketplace made for Black artists, where the artist creates and Noirci Studio handles the archival printing, packing, shipping, customer care, and payments. The artist earns a royalty on every single sale.
"Noirci Studio started with my paintings and a garage full of shipping boxes. It's bigger than me now, and that was always the point." Robert Lawrence, Founder. Painting since 2006.
The Noirci Studio Standard
Archival by default: pigment giclee inks rated for a hundred years of color on gallery-wrapped canvas. Made to order in the USA: your canvas is built by hand after you order it and ships ready to hang. The artist gets paid: every single sale earns the artist a royalty. The writing on this site is held to a standard too, and our editorial guidelines explain how we research and source it.
Shop the collection at African American canvas wall art, or submit your work if you're an artist.
What We Look For
We accept original oil, watercolor, or digital paintings by Black artists. Work should celebrate Black life, culture, and joy, and we need high-resolution scans or files ready for archival printing. Start your submission here.
Contact & Location
Noirci Studio is based in Plano, Texas, and ships across the United States. Reach us at [email protected], Monday through Friday, and we reply within a day. Contact us here.
Featured work: Black Boy Joy Reading
A young reader absorbed in a book, presented as a celebration of curiosity, possibility, and Black boy joy.