Le premier artiste afro-américain à concevoir deux œuvres consécutives pour le Disney’s Epcot Center. Spruill a contribué à établir de nouvelles possibilités pour la peinture figurative et expressionniste, mélangeant les textiles africains et la symbologie avec des éléments américains de ses propres expériences et de l’art expressionniste. 
Né à Birmingham, en Alabama, en 1954, Everett Spruill a fréquenté le Berea College où il a étudié la gestion d’entreprise. En 1986, Everett s’installe à Orlando en Floride.

The first African-American artist to design two consecutive works for Disney's Epcot Center, Everett Spruill (1954) created a huge oeuvre of drawings, paintings, collages and photography. Through his extensive experience with his mother, a fashion designer, Spruill helped to establish new possibilities for figurative and expressionistic painting, blending African textiles and symbology with American elements of his own experiences and expressionistic art. It was not only Spruill's art but also the details of his biography that made him standout------his early years in Birmingham Alabama, during the height of the Civil rights movement...., his friendships with Arthur Rayford, and his Freedom of Speech series, commissioned by the Media Institute in 2014. The "Art of Jazz" is a superbly produced publication assesses Spruill's luminous career with over 60 select reproductions of his work.
Everett Spruill was born in Birmingham, Alabama --an industrial city which meant young Everett was being educated to eventually work as a laborer or artesian.....of course he chose the latter. By the age of 5, Everett was learning piano, collecting stamps and coins and showed a keen interest in photography, his mothers hobby. By high school, Everett was leading his high school choir while creating small watercolor paintings of landscapes. In 1989, Everett became a full time artist, giving up his profession as a Hotel executive. In 1997 Everett became the first African American to create back to back works for Disney's Epcot Center.


First published in 2017, just prior to a  major retrospective exhibition that opened at Yvonne Scarlett Center 2018, "The Art of Jazz, Musical Paintings and Collage" by Everett Spruill is the most complete overview of the artist's entire career to date. This stunningly illustrated survey encompasses works from the late 1980s to the present. Mixed Media Paintings and collages feature a cross section of music legends from Dizzy Gilespie to Jimi Hendrix providing the definitive account of Spruill's achievements. This hard cover, hand signed limited edition of 1000 has a lay flat design and thick water proof-non curling pages. With more than 60 works featured, this book remains the most comprehensive survey of one of the world's pre-eminent contemporary artists. Best known for his Jazz paintings and collages Everett Spruill presents a variety of musical imagery that spans more than three decades of his masterful use of recycled and repurposed materials.

Born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1954, Everett Spruill attended Berea College where he studied Business Management. In 1986 Everett settled in Orlando Florida.