Maker Directory

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EducationMakers

Marva Collins

Teacher, Education Administrator

ArtMakers, CivicMakers

Margaret Burroughs

Printmaker, Museum Director

ArtMakers

Peggy Cooper Cafritz

Art Collector

ScienceMakers, EducationMakers

George Campbell, Jr.

Physicist, University President

EducationMakers, ArtMakers

Mary Schmidt Campbell

Academic Administrator, Art Curator

ArtMakers

Ruth Beckford

Dancer, Choreographer

ArtMakers

Dawoud Bey

Photographer

EducationMakers, CivicMakers

Timuel Black

Historian, History Professor, Community Activist

ArtMakers

Abena Joan P. Brown

Stage Producer

EducationMakers

Bernice Baynes Brown

Academic Administrator

ArtMakers

Oscar Brown, Jr.

Poet, Entertainer, Music Composer, Actor

ArtMakers

Allan Crite

Painter

EducationMakers

Dolores E. Cross

College President

ArtMakers

Ossie Davis

Film Director, Screenwriter, Stage Actor, Film Actor, Actor

ArtMakers

Etta Moten Barnett

Stage Actress

EducationMakers

Na'im Akbar

Psychology Professor

ArtMakers

Wadsworth A. Jarrell, Sr.

Painter

EducationMakers, LawMakers

Walter J. Leonard

Academic Administrator, College President, Law Professor

ArtMakers

Samuel Greenlee

Fiction Writer, Poet

EducationMakers

Annie Rosetta "Rose" Hall

Elementary School Teacher

ArtMakers

Cecil Hayes

Interior Designer

ArtMakers

Vy Higginsen

Stage Producer

ArtMakers

Richard Hunt

Sculptor, Painter

ArtMakers

Kerry James Marshall

Painter

EducationMakers

Lois Martin

Civic Activist, High School Math Teacher, Community Leader

ScienceMakers

Walter E. Massey

Physicist, Academic Administrator

EducationMakers

George McKenna, III

High School Principal

ArtMakers

Terry McMillan

Fiction Writer

ArtMakers

David Driskell

Art Professor, Curator, Fine Artist, Visual Arts Collector

ArtMakers

Katherine Dunham

Choreographer, Dancer, Dance Instructor

EducationMakers

James N. Eaton, Sr.

Curator, African American Studies Professor

ArtMakers

Edmund B. Gaither

Curator

EducationMakers

Jewelle Taylor Gibbs

Social Work Professor

ArtMakers

Jonathan Green

Painter, Printmaker

EducationMakers

Julianne Malveaux

University President

CivicMakers, EducationMakers

Audrey Manley

College President, Federal Government Appointee

ArtMakers

Jeff Donaldson

Painter

ArtMakers

Lorenzo Pace

Mixed Media Artist

ArtMakers

Gordon Parks

Fiction Writer, Film Director, Photographer, Filmmaker

ArtMakers

Lloyd Richards

Academic Administrator, Stage Actor, Theater Director

EducationMakers

Charles Willie

Sociologist, Education Professor

EducationMakers

Manford Byrd, Jr.

Elementary School Principal, School Superintendent, High School Principal

EducationMakers

Jacob H. Carruthers, Jr.

African American Studies Professor

ArtMakers, MilitaryMakers

Ed Dwight

Sculptor, Test Pilot

ArtMakers

Ausbra Ford

Sculptor, Art Professor

ScienceMakers

Charles A. Harrison

Industrial Designer

ArtMakers

Ronne Hartfield

Curator, Arts Administrator

ArtMakers

Okoro Harold Johnson

Playwright, Stage Actor, Theater Director

EducationMakers

William King

Ethnic Studies Professor

EducationMakers

Ruth Love

Education Advisor, School Superintendent