Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller ( MEE-t? VOW; born Meta Vaux Warrick, June 9, 1877 – 18 March 1968) was an African-American artist notable for celebrating Afrocentric themes.
She was known as a multi-talented artist who wrote poetry, painted, and sculpted but was most noted for her sculpture.
At the turn of the twentieth century, she had achieved a reputation as a well-known sculptor in Paris before returning to the United States.
She created work with strong social commentary; for instance, she made a sculpture of Mary Turner, a young, married and pregnant black woman who was lynched in Georgia in 1918 the day after protesting the lynching of her husband.
Warrick is considered a forerunner of the Harlem Renaissance, a movement among African Americans promoting their literature and art.