Maker Directory

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ArtMakers

Dawoud Bey

Photographer

ArtMakers

Vy Higginsen

Stage Producer

MusicMakers

Famoudou Don Moye

Percussionist

MusicMakers

Keter Betts

Bassist

MusicMakers

Camay Calloway Murphy

Academic Administrator

ArtMakers

Isobel Neal

Art Gallery Owner

ArtMakers

Paul Carter Harrison

Playwright

MusicMakers

Russell Simmons

Media Company Entrepreneur, Music Executive

MusicMakers

Karen "Lady in Red" Briggs

Violinist

ArtMakers

David Bodrick

Photographer, Photography Entrepreneur

ArtMakers

Joan Sandler

Arts Administrator

MediaMakers, MusicMakers

Dyana Williams

Radio Personality, Music Producer

ArtMakers, MediaMakers

George Beach

Graphic Artist, Advertising Chief Executive

ArtMakers

Evangeline Montgomery

Printmaker, Curator, Mixed Media Artist

ArtMakers, EntertainmentMakers

Janet Angel MacLachlan

Stage Actress, Film Actress

MusicMakers

Julius P. Williams, Jr.

Conductor

ArtMakers

Arthur Wellesley French

Stage Actor, Film Actor, Stage Director

EntertainmentMakers, MusicMakers

Diahann Carroll

Film Actress, Singer

MusicMakers

Mohandas "Kool Moe Dee" DeWese

Hip Hop Artist

ArtMakers

Lynn Nottage

Playwright

ArtMakers

Stanley Nelson

Film Producer, Documentary Filmmaker

ArtMakers

Julie Dash

Filmmaker

ArtMakers

Maurice Hines, Jr.

Choreographer, Entertainer, Stage Director

MusicMakers

George Daniels

Record Store Owner

ArtMakers

Leslie King-Hammond

Installation Artist, Academic Administrator, Art History Professor, Curator, Arts Administrator

ArtMakers, MusicMakers

Josh White, Jr.

Actor, Folk Singer

EducationMakers, ArtMakers

E. Ethelbert Miller

Academic Administrator, Poet

ArtMakers

Melba Moore

Stage Actress, Musical Singer, Singer

MusicMakers

Gloria Lynne

Singer

ArtMakers

Ludie Jones

Dancer, Dance Instructor

ArtMakers

Sylvia Waters

Artistic Director, Dancer

MusicMakers

Jerome "Little Anthony" Gourdine

Singer

ArtMakers

Herbert Randall

Photographer

MusicMakers

Vivian Scott Chew

Music Executive

MusicMakers

Ray Chew

Musician and Singer, Music Director

ArtMakers

James Phillips

Visual Artist

MusicMakers

Frankie Knuckles

DJ

ArtMakers

David "Oggi" Ogburn

Photographer

MusicMakers

Rodrick Dixon

Opera Singer

ArtMakers

Donald McKayle

Choreographer, Director, Educator

MusicMakers

Irving Burgie

Songwriter, Performer

MusicMakers

T.S. Monk, III

Jazz Musician

MusicMakers

Meli'sa Morgan

R & B Singer

ArtMakers

Arthur Mitchell

Dancer, Choreographer, Artistic Director

ReligionMakers, MusicMakers

Donnie McClurkin

Gospel Singer, Pastor

ArtMakers, EntertainmentMakers

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

Actor, Screenwriter, Stage Director

ArtMakers

Thelma Golden

Museum Director, Curator

ArtMakers

Mercedes Ellington

Dancer, Choreographer

MediaMakers, ArtMakers

Jill Nelson

Journalist, Author

ArtMakers

Lorna Simpson

Photographer