Maker Directory

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MilitaryMakers

Roy Chappell

High School Teacher, Tuskegee Airman

PoliticalMakers

The Honorable Augusta Clark

City Council Member

PoliticalMakers

The Honorable Earlean Collins

City Commissioner, County Commissioner

LawMakers, PoliticalMakers

The Honorable Roland Burris

State Attorney General, State Comptroller, U.S. Senator

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

PoliticalMakers

The Honorable Yvonne Brathwaite Burke

U.S. Congresswoman

ArtMakers

Abena Joan P. Brown

Stage Producer

ArtMakers

Oscar Brown, Jr.

Poet, Entertainer, Music Composer, Actor

PoliticalMakers

The Honorable John Conyers, Jr.

U.S. Congressman

ArtMakers

Allan Crite

Painter

ArtMakers

Ossie Davis

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

ArtMakers

Etta Moten Barnett

Stage Actress

PoliticalMakers

The Honorable Marion Barry

Mayor

PoliticalMakers

The Honorable Jesse Jackson, Jr.

U.S. Congressman

ArtMakers

Wadsworth A. Jarrell, Sr.

Painter

PoliticalMakers

The Honorable Emil Jones, Jr.

State Senator

ArtMakers

Samuel Greenlee

Fiction Writer, Poet

MilitaryMakers, PoliticalMakers

The Honorable Floyd Griffin

Colonel, Mayor, State Senator

ArtMakers

Cecil Hayes

Interior Designer

ArtMakers

Vy Higginsen

Stage Producer

ArtMakers

Richard Hunt

Sculptor, Painter

ArtMakers

Kerry James Marshall

Painter

ArtMakers

Terry McMillan

Fiction Writer

PoliticalMakers

The Honorable Carrie P. Meek

U.S. Congresswoman

ArtMakers

David Driskell

Art Professor, Curator, Fine Artist, Visual Arts Collector

ArtMakers

Katherine Dunham

Choreographer, Dancer, Dance Instructor

PoliticalMakers, ReligionMakers

The Honorable Reverend Dr. Floyd Flake

U.S. Congressman, Minister

PoliticalMakers

The Honorable James Ford

Mayor

ArtMakers

Edmund B. Gaither

Curator

ArtMakers

Jonathan Green

Painter, Printmaker

PoliticalMakers

Clarence Love

City Commissioner

PoliticalMakers

The Honorable David N. Dinkins

Mayor

ArtMakers

Jeff Donaldson

Painter

CivicMakers, PoliticalMakers

The Honorable John Lewis

Civil Rights Leader, U.S. Congressman

PoliticalMakers

The Honorable Carol Moseley Braun

U.S. Senator

ArtMakers

Lorenzo Pace

Mixed Media Artist

ArtMakers

Gordon Parks

Fiction Writer, Film Director, Photographer, Filmmaker

PoliticalMakers

Howard "Pete" Rawlings

State Delegate

ArtMakers

Lloyd Richards

Academic Administrator, Stage Actor, Theater Director

LawMakers, MilitaryMakers

The Honorable John Rogers, Sr.

Juvenile Court Judge, Tuskegee Airman

CivicMakers, PoliticalMakers

The Honorable Bobby Rush

Political Activist, U.S. Congressman

PoliticalMakers

Gus Savage

U.S. Congressman

MilitaryMakers

Col. William R. Thompson

Tuskegee Airman

PoliticalMakers

The Honorable Maxine Waters

U.S. Congresswoman

LawMakers, MilitaryMakers

The Honorable William Sylvester White

Juvenile Court Judge, Military Officer

PoliticalMakers

The Honorable Howard Brookins, Sr.

State Senator