Maker Directory

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MediaMakers

Diann Burns

Television News Anchor

ArtMakers, CivicMakers

Margaret Burroughs

Printmaker, Museum Director

ArtMakers

Peggy Cooper Cafritz

Art Collector

EducationMakers, ArtMakers

Mary Schmidt Campbell

Academic Administrator, Art Curator

ArtMakers

Ruth Beckford

Dancer, Choreographer

MediaMakers

Barbara Boyd

Television Reporter

ArtMakers

Abena Joan P. Brown

Stage Producer

MediaMakers

Belva Davis

Television Anchor

ArtMakers

Etta Moten Barnett

Stage Actress

MediaMakers

Hermene Hartman

Magazine Publishing Chief Executive

ArtMakers

Cecil Hayes

Interior Designer

ArtMakers

Vy Higginsen

Stage Producer

ArtMakers

Terry McMillan

Fiction Writer

ArtMakers

Katherine Dunham

Choreographer, Dancer, Dance Instructor

MediaMakers

Merri Dee

Television Personality

ArtMakers

Ronne Hartfield

Curator, Arts Administrator

ArtMakers

Val Gray Ward

Artistic Director, Stage Actress, Stage Director, Stage Producer

MediaMakers

Susan L. Taylor

Magazine Editor

ArtMakers

Ruby Dee

Stage Actress, Film Actress, Actress

ArtMakers

Cleo Parker Robinson

Dancer, Artistic Director

ArtMakers

Jackie Taylor

Stage Actress, Stage Director, Stage Producer

MediaMakers

Bonita Gooch

Newspaper Publishing Chief Executive

ArtMakers

Nikki Giovanni

Poet

MediaMakers

Melody Spann-Cooper

Broadcast Chief Executive

MediaMakers

Jannette L. Dates

Academic Administrator, Communications Professor, Dean

ArtMakers

Eloise Demaris Hughes

Dancer

ArtMakers

Zenobia Washington

Doll Artist

MediaMakers

La Donna Tittle

Radio Personality

ArtMakers

Geraldine McCullough

Art Professor, Painter, Sculptor

MediaMakers

Felicia Middlebrooks

Production Company Chief Executive, Radio News Anchor

MediaMakers

Dorothy R. Leavell

Newspaper Publishing Chief Executive

ArtMakers

Erma L. Clanton

Playwright, High School English Teacher, Theater Professor, Theater Director, Arts Administrator

MediaMakers

Dorothy B. Gilliam

Newspaper Columnist

ArtMakers

Elma Lewis

Theater Chief Executive

ArtMakers

Florence Ladd

Fiction Writer, Academic Administrator

ArtMakers

Sonia Sanchez

Poet, English Professor

MediaMakers, CivicMakers

Carole Henderson Tyson

Media Company Chief Executive, Nonprofit Chief Executive

ArtMakers

Joan Gray

Nonprofit Chief Executive, Dancer, Arts Administrator

ArtMakers

Doris Jones

Artistic Director, Dance Instructor

ArtMakers

Samella Lewis

Printmaker, Art Curator

MediaMakers

Frances L. Murphy, II

Newspaper Publishing Chief Executive, Journalism Professor

ArtMakers

Vivian D. Hewitt

Art Collector, Librarian

ArtMakers

Madeline Murphy Rabb

Art Consultant, Curator

MediaMakers

A'Lelia Bundles

Author, Television News Producer

ArtMakers

Bennetta Nelson West

Arts Administrator

ArtMakers

Susan Cayton Woodson

Art Collector

ArtMakers

Isobel Neal

Art Gallery Owner

MediaMakers

Gwendolyn Mitchell

Book Editor

ArtMakers

Ernestine Brown

Art Gallery Owner

ArtMakers

June Sallee Antoine

Nonprofit Chief Executive, High School Principal, Educator, Nonprofit Executive, Civic Leader, Arts Administrator