Maker Directory

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MusicMakers

Kenny Gamble

Civic Activist, Lyricist

ArtMakers

Richard Long

Author

ArtMakers

Ruby Dee

Stage Actress, Film Actress, Actress

ArtMakers

Douglas Alan-Mann

Stage Actor, Stage Director

ArtMakers

Eric Werner

Photographer

ArtMakers

Bob Black

Photographer

ArtMakers

Cleo Parker Robinson

Dancer, Artistic Director

ArtMakers

Jackie Taylor

Stage Actress, Stage Director, Stage Producer

SportsMakers, MusicMakers

Ernie Terrell

Music Producer, Boxer, Singer

MusicMakers

Cheryl Saunders

Choral Director

ArtMakers

Nikki Giovanni

Poet

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

Eloise Demaris Hughes

Dancer

ArtMakers

Zenobia Washington

Doll Artist

ArtMakers

Geraldine McCullough

Art Professor, Painter, Sculptor

ArtMakers

Thomas Miller

Graphic Designer, Painter

MusicMakers

Bernice Johnson Reagon

Curator, Music Composer, History Professor

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

MusicMakers

Morris Butch Stewart

Music Producer, Songwriter

ArtMakers

Erma L. Clanton

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

MusicMakers

Donald "Duck" Porter

Singer, Doowop Singer

ArtMakers

Frank Lucas

Graphic Designer

ArtMakers

Woodie King, Jr.

Stage Director, Theater Director

ArtMakers

Elma Lewis

Theater Chief Executive

ArtMakers

Florence Ladd

Fiction Writer, Academic Administrator

ArtMakers

Sonia Sanchez

Poet, English Professor

MusicMakers

Jean Carne

Singer

MusicMakers

Keter Betts

Bassist

ArtMakers

Geoffrey Holder

Dancer, Film Actor, Stage Director, Painter

ArtMakers

Paul D. Goodnight

Painter

ArtMakers

Curtis "Kojo" Morrow

Jewelry Artist

ArtMakers

Joan Gray

Nonprofit Chief Executive, Dancer, Arts Administrator

MusicMakers

Isaac Hayes

Film Actor, Musician and Singer, Film Score Composer

ArtMakers

Jason Miccolo Johnson

Photographer

ArtMakers

Doris Jones

Artistic Director, Dance Instructor

MusicMakers

Fred Jones

Entertainment Promoter, Music Manager

ArtMakers

Paul Jones

Civic Leader, Art Collector

MusicMakers

Edward Robinson

Gospel Pianist

ArtMakers

Lou Stovall

Printmaker

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