Antoine "RAW" Williams is just one of the artists who will be featured at the Columbia Museum of Art for the Post Graffiti art show. Question Everything? If people had taglines that probably would be Antoine Williams’. He’s always been that observant person to ask “why” or better yet “why not”. Even as a kid back in the small rural town of Red Springs, NC where he was born in 1980. Antoine used his creativity to feed his hunger for the unknown. This inquisitive nature followed through art school at UNC-Charlotte. Here Antoine began to notice social differences and injustices whether it be racial, cultural, or economical. Influenced by artist such as Diego Rivera, Banksy, Barkley Hendricks, Shepard Fairey, and Emory Douglas, Antoine began to comment on issues that concerned yet interested him. Antoine’s work is a fusion of street art, hip hop culture and propaganda art that comments on social/political issues as they relate to everyday people. “I feel that art should be for everyone not just the elite.” In 2005 Antoine co-founded the art collective God City whose mission is to educate, entertain, and assist the people through artistic expression. Antoine currently has work in The Mint Museum of Art permanent collection and in the homes of various collectors while continuing to exhibit work and while pushing his artistic abilities and message. . http://rawgoods.org CLICK HERE TO SLIDESHOW