Maker Directory

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EntertainmentMakers

Reuben Cannon

Film Casting Director, Television Producer, Film Producer

ArtMakers

Dawoud Bey

Photographer

ArtMakers

Oscar Brown, Jr.

Poet, Entertainer, Music Composer, Actor

ArtMakers

Allan Crite

Painter

ArtMakers

Ossie Davis

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

ArtMakers

Wadsworth A. Jarrell, Sr.

Painter

ArtMakers

Samuel Greenlee

Fiction Writer, Poet

ArtMakers

Richard Hunt

Sculptor, Painter

ArtMakers

Kerry James Marshall

Painter

ArtMakers

David Driskell

Art Professor, Curator, Fine Artist, Visual Arts Collector

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

EntertainmentMakers

George Wallace

Comedian

ArtMakers, MilitaryMakers

Ed Dwight

Sculptor, Test Pilot

ArtMakers

Ausbra Ford

Sculptor, Art Professor

ArtMakers

Okoro Harold Johnson

Playwright, Stage Actor, Theater Director

EntertainmentMakers

Harry Belafonte

Entertainer

ArtMakers

Allen Stringfellow

Collage Artist, Watercolor Artist

ArtMakers

LeRoy Winbush

Graphic Designer

ArtMakers

Noel Mayo

Industrial Designer, Design Professor

ArtMakers

Richard Long

Author

EntertainmentMakers

Albert Stiles

Entertainer

ArtMakers

Douglas Alan-Mann

Stage Actor, Stage Director

ArtMakers

Eric Werner

Photographer

ArtMakers

Bob Black

Photographer

ArtMakers

Useni Eugene Perkins

Poet, Foundation Chief Executive, Writer

ArtMakers

Kalamu ya Salaam

Poet, Music Critic

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

ArtMakers

Frank Lucas

Graphic Designer

ArtMakers

Woodie King, Jr.

Stage Director, Theater Director

EntertainmentMakers

William Greaves

Documentary Filmmaker, Stage Actor, Film Director

EntertainmentMakers

James Avery

Television Actor

ArtMakers

Geoffrey Holder

Dancer, Film Actor, Stage Director, Painter

ArtMakers

Paul D. Goodnight

Painter

ArtMakers

Curtis "Kojo" Morrow

Jewelry Artist

ArtMakers

Jason Miccolo Johnson

Photographer

ArtMakers

Paul Jones

Civic Leader, Art Collector

ArtMakers

Lou Stovall

Printmaker

EntertainmentMakers

Stan Lathan

Television Producer

ArtMakers

Malcolm Brown

Painter, High School Art Teacher, Visual Artist, Art Teacher

EntertainmentMakers

Avon Kirkland

Film Producer

ArtMakers

Morrie Turner

Cartoonist

EntertainmentMakers

Fayard Nicholas

Dancer

ArtMakers

Joseph Daniel Clipper

Photographer