Maker Directory

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ArtMakers

Elizabeth Catlett

Printmaker, Art Professor, Sculptor

MusicMakers

Fred Cash

Singer

MusicMakers

Willie Kitchens

Gospel Musician, Music Director, Singer

MusicMakers

Samuel Gooden

Singer

MusicMakers

Wayne Baker Brooks

Blues Musician

MusicMakers

Ronnie Baker Brooks

Blues Musician

MusicMakers

Billy Taylor

Music Professor, Jazz Pianist, Music Composer

ArtMakers

Edward Clark

Painter

MusicMakers

Scherrie Payne

Motown Singer, Songwriter

EducationMakers, MusicMakers

Robert Winfrey

Education Administrator, Music Composer, Music Director

ArtMakers

Merton Simpson

Painter

ArtMakers, EntertainmentMakers

Roscoe Lee Browne

Stage Actor, Film Actor, Television Actor

MusicMakers

Harold Wheeler

Music Composer, Music Producer

ArtMakers

Bebe Moore Campbell

Fiction Writer

MusicMakers

Olly Wilson

Music Professor, Music Composer

ArtMakers, EntertainmentMakers

Robert Hooks

Stage Producer, Actor

MusicMakers

Dee Dee Warwick

Entertainer, Singer

MusicMakers

Mohandas "Kool Moe Dee" DeWese

Hip Hop Artist

ArtMakers

James Hiram Malone

Cartoonist, Graphic Designer

ArtMakers

Lynn Nottage

Playwright

ArtMakers

Angela Jackson

Playwright, Poet

ArtMakers

Stephanie Hughley

Arts Administrator, Producer

ArtMakers

Amalia Amaki

Mixed Media Artist

MusicMakers

Simon Estes

Opera Singer

MusicMakers

Odetta Gordon

Civil Rights Activist, Folk Singer, Songwriter

ArtMakers

Peg Alston

Art Gallery Owner

EducationMakers, LawMakers, ArtMakers

Robert C. Johnson, Jr.

Playwright, Africana Studies Professor, Lawyer

ArtMakers, StyleMakers

James Guilford

Painter, Barber

ArtMakers

Jawole Willa Jo Zollar

Artistic Director, Dancer

ArtMakers

Jim Alexander

Photographer

MusicMakers

Willie Brown, Jr.

Opera Singer

EducationMakers, MusicMakers

Barbara Wright-Pryor

School Counselor, Classical Singer

ArtMakers

Martha Brock-Leftridge

Photographer

ArtMakers

Melvin Van Peebles

Actor, Film Director, Fiction Writer, Playwright, Writer

MusicMakers

Evelyn Freeman Roberts

Bandleader, Music Composer, Musician

MusicMakers, ReligionMakers

Reverend Dr. Dwight Andrews

Music Director, Chaplain, Pastor

MusicMakers

Eileen Tate Cline

Academic Administrator

ArtMakers

Marjorie Witt Johnson

Dancer, Dance Instructor

ArtMakers, EntertainmentMakers

Harry J. Lennix

Stage Actor, Film Actor

ArtMakers

Stanley Nelson

Film Producer, Documentary Filmmaker

ArtMakers

Willis Bing Davis

Mixed Media Artist

MusicMakers

Charley Pride

Country Singer, Country Music Singer

ArtMakers

Micki Grant

Actress, Lyricist, Songwriter

ArtMakers

Ann Marie Williams

Artistic Director

MusicMakers

Eric "Ricky" McKinnie

Drummer, Singer

MusicMakers

Julian White

Music Director

ArtMakers

Joyce Owens Anderson

Mixed Media Artist

ArtMakers

Charles Randolph-Wright

Stage Director

ArtMakers, CivicMakers

Georgette Seabrooke Powell

Art Therapist, Nonprofit Chief Executive, Painter

MusicMakers

Delano O'Banion

Music Instructor, Choral Director, Classical Singer