Maker Directory

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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

Abena Joan P. Brown

Stage Producer

MusicMakers

Regina Harris Baiocchi

Music Composer

ArtMakers

Etta Moten Barnett

Stage Actress

ArtMakers

Cecil Hayes

Interior Designer

ArtMakers

Vy Higginsen

Stage Producer

ArtMakers

Terry McMillan

Fiction Writer

ArtMakers

Katherine Dunham

Choreographer, Dancer, Dance Instructor

ArtMakers

Ronne Hartfield

Curator, Arts Administrator

ArtMakers

Val Gray Ward

Artistic Director, Stage Actress, Stage Director, Stage Producer

MusicMakers

Dionne Warwick

Singer

MusicMakers

Ella Jenkins

Folk Singer

MusicMakers

Geraldine Moore

Drummer

ArtMakers

Ruby Dee

Stage Actress, Film Actress, Actress

ArtMakers

Cleo Parker Robinson

Dancer, Artistic Director

ArtMakers

Jackie Taylor

Stage Actress, Stage Director, Stage Producer

MusicMakers

Cheryl Saunders

Choral Director

ArtMakers

Nikki Giovanni

Poet

ArtMakers

Eloise Demaris Hughes

Dancer

ArtMakers

Zenobia Washington

Doll Artist

ArtMakers

Geraldine McCullough

Art Professor, Painter, Sculptor

MusicMakers

Bernice Johnson Reagon

Curator, Music Composer, History Professor

ArtMakers

Erma L. Clanton

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

ArtMakers

Elma Lewis

Theater Chief Executive

ArtMakers

Florence Ladd

Fiction Writer, Academic Administrator

ArtMakers

Sonia Sanchez

Poet, English Professor

MusicMakers

Jean Carne

Singer

ArtMakers

Joan Gray

Nonprofit Chief Executive, Dancer, Arts Administrator

ArtMakers

Doris Jones

Artistic Director, Dance Instructor

ArtMakers

Samella Lewis

Printmaker, Art Curator

MusicMakers

Camay Calloway Murphy

Academic Administrator

ArtMakers

Vivian D. Hewitt

Art Collector, Librarian

ArtMakers

Madeline Murphy Rabb

Art Consultant, Curator

ArtMakers

Bennetta Nelson West

Arts Administrator

ArtMakers

Susan Cayton Woodson

Art Collector

ArtMakers

Isobel Neal

Art Gallery Owner

MusicMakers

Helen Turner-Thompson

Gospel Musician, Piano Instructor

ArtMakers

Ernestine Brown

Art Gallery Owner

ArtMakers

June Sallee Antoine

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

ArtMakers

Della Hardman

Art Professor

ArtMakers

Darlene Blackburn

Choreographer, Dancer, Dance Instructor

ArtMakers

Doris Humphries

Dancer, Dance Group Manager, Dance Instructor

ArtMakers

Lilian Thomas Burwell

Painter, High School Art Teacher, Visual Artist

EntertainmentMakers, MusicMakers

Della Reese-Lett

Television Actress, Singer

ArtMakers

Dianne McIntyre

Dancer, Choreographer

MusicMakers

Geraldine de Haas

Nonprofit Chief Executive, Jazz Singer

ArtMakers

Pearl Cleage

Playwright, Fiction Writer