Maker Directory

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ArtMakers

Dawoud Bey

Photographer

ArtMakers

Oscar Brown, Jr.

Poet, Entertainer, Music Composer, Actor

ArtMakers

Allan Crite

Painter

ArtMakers

Ossie Davis

Film Director, Screenwriter, Stage Actor, Film Actor, Actor

ArtMakers

Wadsworth A. Jarrell, Sr.

Painter

ArtMakers

Samuel Greenlee

Fiction Writer, Poet

ArtMakers

Richard Hunt

Sculptor, Painter

ArtMakers

Kerry James Marshall

Painter

ArtMakers

David Driskell

Art Professor, Curator, Fine Artist, Visual Arts Collector

ReligionMakers, CivicMakers

Reverend Clay Evans

Minister, Nonprofit Chief Executive

PoliticalMakers, ReligionMakers

The Honorable Reverend Dr. Floyd Flake

U.S. Congressman, Minister

ReligionMakers

Reverend Dr. Johnie H. Flakes, Jr.

Pastor

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

ReligionMakers

Reverend Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr.

Pastor

ArtMakers, MilitaryMakers

Ed Dwight

Sculptor, Test Pilot

ArtMakers

Ausbra Ford

Sculptor, Art Professor

ArtMakers

Okoro Harold Johnson

Playwright, Stage Actor, Theater Director

ArtMakers

Allen Stringfellow

Collage Artist, Watercolor Artist

ReligionMakers

Reverend Gardner Taylor

Theologian

CivicMakers, ReligionMakers

Bishop William L. Sheals

City Government Official, Pastor

ArtMakers

LeRoy Winbush

Graphic Designer

ArtMakers

Noel Mayo

Industrial Designer, Design Professor

ArtMakers

Richard Long

Author

ArtMakers

Douglas Alan-Mann

Stage Actor, Stage Director

ArtMakers

Eric Werner

Photographer

ArtMakers

Bob Black

Photographer

CivicMakers, ReligionMakers

Reverend Albert Richard Sampson

Civil Rights Activist, Pastor

ReligionMakers

Reverend Henry Soles

Chaplain

CivicMakers, ReligionMakers

Reverend Samuel Billy Kyles

Civil Rights Activist, Pastor

ReligionMakers

Father Richard L. Tolliver

Priest

ArtMakers

Useni Eugene Perkins

Poet, Foundation Chief Executive, Writer

CivicMakers, ReligionMakers

Reverend Dr. Calvin Morris

Social Activist, Nonprofit Chief Executive, Minister, Theologian, Nonprofit Executive

CivicMakers, PoliticalMakers, ReligionMakers

The Honorable Reverend Walter Fauntroy

Civil Rights Leader, U.S. Congressman, Pastor

ReligionMakers

Reverend Harry Tartt

High School Teacher, Chaplain, Pastor

ReligionMakers

Bishop Joseph Howze

Religious Leader

ArtMakers

Kalamu ya Salaam

Poet, Music Critic

ReligionMakers

Reverend Dr. Latta Thomas

Philosophy and Religion Professor, Chaplain

ReligionMakers

Father George Clements

Social Activist, Priest

ReligionMakers

Reverend T. L. Barrett, Jr.

Radio Host, Pastor

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

ArtMakers

Frank Lucas

Graphic Designer

ArtMakers

Woodie King, Jr.

Stage Director, Theater Director

ArtMakers

Geoffrey Holder

Dancer, Film Actor, Stage Director, Painter