Maker Directory

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ArtMakers

Dawoud Bey

Photographer

ArtMakers

Vy Higginsen

Stage Producer

CivicMakers

Reverend Al Sharpton

Community Activist, Minister, Civil Rights Leader

CivicMakers

Alma Arrington Brown

Bank Executive

CivicMakers

Yvonne Scruggs-Leftwich

Nonprofit Chief Executive

CivicMakers

Donald Miller

Corporate Executive, Association Chief Executive

ArtMakers

Isobel Neal

Art Gallery Owner

CivicMakers

Dorothy McIntyre

Airplane Pilot

ArtMakers

Paul Carter Harrison

Playwright

ArtMakers

David Bodrick

Photographer, Photography Entrepreneur

ArtMakers

Joan Sandler

Arts Administrator

ArtMakers, MediaMakers

George Beach

Graphic Artist, Advertising Chief Executive

ArtMakers

Evangeline Montgomery

Printmaker, Curator, Mixed Media Artist

ArtMakers, EntertainmentMakers

Janet Angel MacLachlan

Stage Actress, Film Actress

StyleMakers, CivicMakers

Allene Singho Roberts

Corporate Executive, Association Chief Executive, Model

CivicMakers

William Gerald Fletcher, Jr.

Nonprofit Chief Executive

ArtMakers

Arthur Wellesley French

Stage Actor, Film Actor, Stage Director

CivicMakers

Vera Thelma Shorter

Community Activist

CivicMakers, MediaMakers

The Honorable Jerome W. Mondesire

Association Branch Executive, Newspaper Publishing Chief Executive, Association Executive

CivicMakers

Ilyasah Shabazz

Civil Rights Leader

ArtMakers

Lynn Nottage

Playwright

CivicMakers, PoliticalMakers

The Honorable Byron Rushing

Museum Director, State Representative, Civil Rights Leader

ReligionMakers, CivicMakers

Vincent Harding

Theologian, Civil Rights Activist

ArtMakers

Stanley Nelson

Film Producer, Documentary Filmmaker

ArtMakers

Julie Dash

Filmmaker

CivicMakers

Gloria Toote

Federal Government Appointee

CivicMakers

Florence M. Rice

Consumer Activist

ArtMakers

Maurice Hines, Jr.

Choreographer, Entertainer, Stage Director

ArtMakers

Leslie King-Hammond

Installation Artist, Academic Administrator, Art History Professor, Curator, Arts Administrator

ArtMakers, MusicMakers

Josh White, Jr.

Actor, Folk Singer

EducationMakers, ArtMakers

E. Ethelbert Miller

Academic Administrator, Poet

CivicMakers

Aileen Clarke Hernandez

Community Activist

ArtMakers

Melba Moore

Stage Actress, Musical Singer, Singer

ArtMakers

Ludie Jones

Dancer, Dance Instructor

ArtMakers

Sylvia Waters

Artistic Director, Dancer

CivicMakers

Henrietta Smith

Library Science Professor, School Media Librarian

ArtMakers

Herbert Randall

Photographer

ArtMakers

James Phillips

Visual Artist

ArtMakers

David "Oggi" Ogburn

Photographer

CivicMakers

Carol Sutton Lewis

Civic Leader

ArtMakers

Donald McKayle

Choreographer, Director, Educator

CivicMakers

Richard X. Clark

Civil Rights Activist, Author, Community Activist

ArtMakers

Arthur Mitchell

Dancer, Choreographer, Artistic Director

CivicMakers

Dolores D. Wharton

Civic Leader

ArtMakers, EntertainmentMakers

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

Actor, Screenwriter, Stage Director

ArtMakers

Thelma Golden

Museum Director, Curator

ArtMakers

Mercedes Ellington

Dancer, Choreographer

MediaMakers, ArtMakers

Jill Nelson

Journalist, Author

ArtMakers

Lorna Simpson

Photographer

CivicMakers

Andrew P. Jackson

Librarian