Maker Directory

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MusicMakers

Newton Collier

R & B Trumpet Player, R & B Trombone Player

ArtMakers

Dawoud Bey

Photographer

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

Chuck Barksdale

R & B Singer

ArtMakers

Wadsworth A. Jarrell, Sr.

Painter

ArtMakers

Samuel Greenlee

Fiction Writer, Poet

MusicMakers

Carl Hines

Math Teacher, Jazz Musician

ArtMakers

Richard Hunt

Sculptor, Painter

ArtMakers

Kerry James Marshall

Painter

ArtMakers

David Driskell

Art Professor, Curator, Fine Artist, Visual Arts Collector

MusicMakers

William Foster

Academic Administrator, Band Director

ArtMakers

Edmund B. Gaither

Curator

ArtMakers

Jonathan Green

Painter, Printmaker

ArtMakers

Jeff Donaldson

Painter

ArtMakers

Lorenzo Pace

Mixed Media Artist

ArtMakers

Gordon Parks

Fiction Writer, Film Director, Photographer, Filmmaker

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

ArtMakers, MilitaryMakers

Ed Dwight

Sculptor, Test Pilot

ArtMakers

Ausbra Ford

Sculptor, Art Professor

ArtMakers

Okoro Harold Johnson

Playwright, Stage Actor, Theater Director

MusicMakers

Famoudou Don Moye

Percussionist

ArtMakers

Allen Stringfellow

Collage Artist, Watercolor Artist

ArtMakers

LeRoy Winbush

Graphic Designer

MusicMakers

Eldee Young

Bassist

ArtMakers

Noel Mayo

Industrial Designer, Design Professor

MusicMakers

Kenny Gamble

Civic Activist, Lyricist

ArtMakers

Richard Long

Author

ArtMakers

Douglas Alan-Mann

Stage Actor, Stage Director

ArtMakers

Eric Werner

Photographer

ArtMakers

Bob Black

Photographer

SportsMakers, MusicMakers

Ernie Terrell

Music Producer, Boxer, Singer

ArtMakers

Useni Eugene Perkins

Poet, Foundation Chief Executive, Writer

MusicMakers

Samuel Floyd

Academic Administrator, Music Museum Director, Music Archivist

ArtMakers

Kalamu ya Salaam

Poet, Music Critic

MusicMakers

Harold Battiste

Nonprofit Chief Executive, Jazz Musician, Music Producer

MusicMakers

Isaac "Redd" Holt

Jazz Musician

ArtMakers

Thomas Miller

Graphic Designer, Painter

ArtMakers

Sterling Plumpp

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

ArtMakers, MusicMakers

Howard Armstrong

Painter, Country and Blues Musician

MusicMakers

Paul Douglas Freeman

Orchestra Conductor

MusicMakers

Kahil El'Zabar

Jazz Percussionist