Maker Directory

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MedicalMakers

Dr. Price Cobbs

Psychiatrist

MusicMakers

Newton Collier

R & B Trumpet Player, R & B Trombone Player

MedicalMakers

Dr. Henry L. Cook

Civil Rights Activist, Dentist

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

ArtMakers

Dawoud Bey

Photographer

ArtMakers

Abena Joan P. Brown

Stage Producer

ArtMakers

Oscar Brown, Jr.

Poet, Entertainer, Music Composer, Actor

ArtMakers

Allan Crite

Painter

MusicMakers

Stanley Crouch

Newspaper Columnist, Music Critic, Magazine Columnist

ArtMakers

Ossie Davis

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

MusicMakers

Tyrone Davis

R & B Singer

MusicMakers

Regina Harris Baiocchi

Music Composer

MusicMakers

Chuck Barksdale

R & B Singer

ArtMakers

Etta Moten Barnett

Stage Actress

ArtMakers

Wadsworth A. Jarrell, Sr.

Painter

MedicalMakers

Shirley H. Jones

Marriage and Family Therapist

ArtMakers

Samuel Greenlee

Fiction Writer, Poet

ArtMakers

Cecil Hayes

Interior Designer

ArtMakers

Vy Higginsen

Stage Producer

MusicMakers

Carl Hines

Math Teacher, Jazz Musician

ArtMakers

Richard Hunt

Sculptor, Painter

ArtMakers

Kerry James Marshall

Painter

ArtMakers

Terry McMillan

Fiction Writer

ArtMakers

David Driskell

Art Professor, Curator, Fine Artist, Visual Arts Collector

ArtMakers

Katherine Dunham

Choreographer, Dancer, Dance Instructor

MusicMakers

William Foster

Academic Administrator, Band Director

MedicalMakers

Dr. Harold Freeman

Oncologist

ArtMakers

Edmund B. Gaither

Curator

ArtMakers

Jonathan Green

Painter, Printmaker

ArtMakers

Jeff Donaldson

Painter

MedicalMakers

Dr. Henry Lewis

Pharmacist

MedicalMakers

Dr. Virgil Norris

Community Activist, Surgeon

ArtMakers

Lorenzo Pace

Mixed Media Artist

ArtMakers

Gordon Parks

Fiction Writer, Film Director, Photographer, Filmmaker

MedicalMakers

Dr. Richard Payne

Neurologist

MedicalMakers

Dr. Muriel Petioni

Community Leader, School Physician

MedicalMakers

Dr. Alvin Poussaint

Psychiatrist

CivicMakers, MedicalMakers

Dr. Beny J. Primm

Nonprofit Chief Executive, Chief Executive Officer, Physician

ArtMakers

Lloyd Richards

Academic Administrator, Stage Actor, Theater Director

MusicMakers

Eddie Thomas

Music Promoter

MusicMakers

Marshall Thompson

Drummer, Singer

MusicMakers

William Warfield

Singer

MusicMakers

Charles Burrell

Classical Bassist

PoliticalMakers, MusicMakers

The Honorable Jerry Butler

Music Composer, County Commissioner, Music Producer, Singer

MedicalMakers, MilitaryMakers

Augustine Davis

Pharmacist, Sailor

ArtMakers, MilitaryMakers

Ed Dwight

Sculptor, Test Pilot

ArtMakers

Ausbra Ford

Sculptor, Art Professor