Maker Directory

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ScienceMakers, EducationMakers

George Campbell, Jr.

Physicist, University President

ArtMakers

Dawoud Bey

Photographer

EducationMakers, CivicMakers

Timuel Black

Historian, History Professor, Community Activist

ArtMakers

Oscar Brown, Jr.

Poet, Entertainer, Music Composer, Actor

ArtMakers

Allan Crite

Painter

ArtMakers

Ossie Davis

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

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

ArtMakers

Richard Hunt

Sculptor, Painter

ArtMakers

Kerry James Marshall

Painter

EducationMakers

George McKenna, III

High School Principal

ArtMakers

David Driskell

Art Professor, Curator, Fine Artist, Visual Arts Collector

EducationMakers

James N. Eaton, Sr.

Curator, African American Studies Professor

ArtMakers

Edmund B. Gaither

Curator

ArtMakers

Jonathan Green

Painter, Printmaker

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

ArtMakers

Okoro Harold Johnson

Playwright, Stage Actor, Theater Director

EducationMakers

William King

Ethnic Studies Professor

EducationMakers

The Honorable Kenneth Smith, Sr.

University President

EducationMakers

Shelby Steele

English Professor

ArtMakers

Allen Stringfellow

Collage Artist, Watercolor Artist

ArtMakers

LeRoy Winbush

Graphic Designer

EducationMakers

Conrad Walter Worrill

Nonprofit Chief Executive, African American Studies Professor, Professor, Community Activist

ArtMakers

Noel Mayo

Industrial Designer, Design Professor

ArtMakers

Richard Long

Author

ArtMakers

Douglas Alan-Mann

Stage Actor, Stage Director

ArtMakers

Eric Werner

Photographer

ArtMakers

Bob Black

Photographer

EducationMakers

Lerone Bennett

Magazine Editor, Social Historian, Historian

EducationMakers

Sylvester Small

School Superintendent

EducationMakers, LawMakers

john powell

Academic Administrator, Nonprofit Legal Director, Law Professor

ArtMakers

Useni Eugene Perkins

Poet, Foundation Chief Executive, Writer

EducationMakers

Paul Adams, III

Civil Rights Activist, High School Principal

EducationMakers

Chester Grundy

Academic Administrator

EducationMakers

Norman Francis

University President

ArtMakers

Kalamu ya Salaam

Poet, Music Critic

EducationMakers, PoliticalMakers

Crain Woods

High School Teacher, City Council Member

ArtMakers

Thomas Miller

Graphic Designer, Painter

ArtMakers

Sterling Plumpp

Jazz and Blues Poet, African American Studies Professor, English Professor

ArtMakers, MusicMakers

Howard Armstrong

Painter, Country and Blues Musician