Famous San Marcan artist to be memorialized locally

LOCAL ARTISTS

Bill Hutson is a San Marcos native that went on to become a very famous artist, even having an exhibit at The Centre Pompidou in Paris. Hutson passed away in 2022, but community members are finding ways to memorialize him, while preserving local Black history.

Linda Kelsey-Jones, the former Centro Cultural Hispano de San Marcos ArtSpace coordinator, is one of the locals leading the charge to honor Hutson in San Marcos. She said Hutson was born in his family home in the Dunbar neighborhood on Centre Street in 1936. He lost his father — a local, revered musician — when he was a toddler and his mother in his teens.