Maker Directory

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ArtMakers, MilitaryMakers

Ed Dwight

Sculptor, Test Pilot

ArtMakers

Ausbra Ford

Sculptor, Art Professor

ArtMakers

Ronne Hartfield

Curator, Arts Administrator

MediaMakers

Donald J. Jackson

Media Company Entrepreneur

ArtMakers

Okoro Harold Johnson

Playwright, Stage Actor, Theater Director

ArtMakers

Val Gray Ward

Artistic Director, Stage Actress, Stage Director, Stage Producer

MediaMakers

Pervis Spann

Broadcast Chief Executive, Radio Personality

MediaMakers

Wesley South

Radio Personality

ArtMakers

Allen Stringfellow

Collage Artist, Watercolor Artist

MediaMakers

Susan L. Taylor

Magazine Editor

CivicMakers, MediaMakers

Lutrelle "Lu" F. Palmer, II

Community Activist, Newspaper Reporter

MediaMakers

Harry Porterfield

Television Personality

MediaMakers

Tavis Smiley

Publishing Chief Executive, Television Host

ArtMakers

LeRoy Winbush

Graphic Designer

ArtMakers

Noel Mayo

Industrial Designer, Design Professor

MediaMakers

Louis Dinwiddie

Radio Entrepreneur

MediaMakers

A. Bruce Crawley

Public Relations Manager, Public Relations Chief Executive

ArtMakers

Richard Long

Author

ArtMakers

Ruby Dee

Stage Actress, Film Actress, Actress

ArtMakers

Douglas Alan-Mann

Stage Actor, Stage Director

ArtMakers

Eric Werner

Photographer

ArtMakers

Bob Black

Photographer

ArtMakers

Cleo Parker Robinson

Dancer, Artistic Director

ArtMakers

Jackie Taylor

Stage Actress, Stage Director, Stage Producer

MediaMakers

Angelo Henderson

Newspaper Columnist, Radio Host

MediaMakers

Bonita Gooch

Newspaper Publishing Chief Executive

ArtMakers

Nikki Giovanni

Poet

ArtMakers

Useni Eugene Perkins

Poet, Foundation Chief Executive, Writer

MediaMakers

Salim Muwakkil

Magazine Editor, Newspaper Columnist

MediaMakers

Melody Spann-Cooper

Broadcast Chief Executive

MediaMakers

Jannette L. Dates

Academic Administrator, Communications Professor, Dean

MediaMakers

Richard Love

Newspaper Editor, Newspaper Publishing Chief Executive

ArtMakers

Kalamu ya Salaam

Poet, Music Critic

ArtMakers

Eloise Demaris Hughes

Dancer

MediaMakers

Jim Tilmon

Airplane Pilot, Television Reporter, Meteorologist

MediaMakers

Gerald Johnson

Newspaper Publishing Chief Executive

ArtMakers

Zenobia Washington

Doll Artist

MediaMakers

La Donna Tittle

Radio Personality

MediaMakers

N. Don Wycliff

Newspaper Columnist, Newspaper Editor

ArtMakers

Geraldine McCullough

Art Professor, Painter, Sculptor

ArtMakers

Thomas Miller

Graphic Designer, Painter

MediaMakers

Felicia Middlebrooks

Production Company Chief Executive, Radio News Anchor

MediaMakers

Dorothy R. Leavell

Newspaper Publishing Chief Executive

ArtMakers

Sterling Plumpp

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

ArtMakers, MusicMakers

Howard Armstrong

Painter, Country and Blues Musician

ArtMakers

Erma L. Clanton

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

LawMakers, MediaMakers

John Jacob "Jake" Oliver

Corporate Lawyer, Newspaper Publishing Chief Executive

MediaMakers

Dorothy B. Gilliam

Newspaper Columnist

ArtMakers

Frank Lucas

Graphic Designer

ArtMakers

Woodie King, Jr.

Stage Director, Theater Director