Mother is painted and drawn with watercolor and pastel on board. It is part of the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art's permanent collection works on paper. Bluerooming, 2015 Bluerooming is an acquisition of the Arrowhead Art Collection. It is made up of panels. Powell states that the painting is a portrayal of the music scene in Kansas City. "Bluerooming portrays the two subjects that I am inextricably a part of, jazz and my city. Though figures depicted in this polyptych are not portraits in the true sense of the word, they are inspired by musicians past and present who have performed at the Blue Room from its beginning in the 1930s to the present." Awards 2005 Signature membership in the National Watercolor Society 2006 Named "One to Watch" by Watercolor Magic Magazine 2013 Best of show Harlem X-Hibit, Black Art in America 2015 Missouri Congressman Emanuel Cleaver honored Powell with a Congressional Record Statement. 2020 ArtsKC Virtuoso Award Exhibitions 2002 The Light in the Other Room Group Show, 18th Street Studio, Kansas City 2004 Vine Street Studio, Kansas City 2004 Shades of Greatness, Negro League Museum, Kansas City UMKC’s African American History and Culture House 2014 All Colors, Portfolio Gallery, St.Louis 2017 Vine Street Studio, Kansas City 2019 All Colors, Portfolio Gallery, Kansas City 2020 All Colors, Portfolio Gallery, St. Louis Collections Collection of Dr. Loretta Britton Saad, 2002 American Jazz Museum Collection Negro Leagues Baseball Museum Collection Sprint Art Collection H & R Block Art Collection Federal Reserve Bank Art Collection Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art Collection Truman Medical Center Art Collection Mulvane Art Museum Collection Arrowhead Art Collection Notes 1943 births 21st-century American painters 21st-century American male artists Living people People from Kansas City, Missouri