Maker Directory

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ReligionMakers

Reverend Dr. Johnnie Colemon

Minister

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

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

ReligionMakers

Reverend Dr. Angelique Walker-Smith

Minister

ArtMakers

Ronne Hartfield

Curator, Arts Administrator

ArtMakers

Val Gray Ward

Artistic Director, Stage Actress, Stage Director, Stage Producer

ArtMakers

Ruby Dee

Stage Actress, Film Actress, Actress

ArtMakers

Cleo Parker Robinson

Dancer, Artistic Director

ArtMakers

Jackie Taylor

Stage Actress, Stage Director, Stage Producer

ArtMakers

Nikki Giovanni

Poet

ArtMakers

Eloise Demaris Hughes

Dancer

ReligionMakers

Reverend Marion Roddy-Hart

Pastor

ArtMakers

Zenobia Washington

Doll Artist

ArtMakers

Geraldine McCullough

Art Professor, Painter, Sculptor

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

ReligionMakers

Reverend Frances Murphy Draper

Pastor

ReligionMakers

Reverend Dr. Jacquelyn Grant

Academic Administrator, Minister, Theology Professor, Theologian

ArtMakers

Joan Gray

Nonprofit Chief Executive, Dancer, Arts Administrator

ArtMakers

Doris Jones

Artistic Director, Dance Instructor

ArtMakers

Samella Lewis

Printmaker, Art Curator

ReligionMakers

Sister Constance Murphy

Nun

ArtMakers

Vivian D. Hewitt

Art Collector, Librarian

ArtMakers

Madeline Murphy Rabb

Art Consultant, Curator

ArtMakers

Bennetta Nelson West

Arts Administrator

ReligionMakers

Jamye Coleman Williams

Communications Professor, Church Leader

ArtMakers

Susan Cayton Woodson

Art Collector

ReligionMakers

Reverend Nan Arrington Peete

Management Consultant, Minister

ArtMakers

Isobel Neal

Art Gallery Owner

ArtMakers

Ernestine Brown

Art Gallery Owner

ArtMakers

June Sallee Antoine

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

ReligionMakers

Sister Patricia Ralph

Elementary School Principal, Nun

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

ArtMakers

Dianne McIntyre

Dancer, Choreographer

ReligionMakers

Chaplain Sylvia Tucker

Chaplain

ReligionMakers

Reverend Dr. Barbara L. King

Minister

ArtMakers

Pearl Cleage

Playwright, Fiction Writer