Maker Directory

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ArtMakers

Barbara Ann Teer

Arts Administrator

ArtMakers

Arthur Wellesley French

Stage Actor, Film Actor, Stage Director

ArtMakers

Louis Johnson

Dancer, Choreographer

ArtMakers

Gertrude Hadley Jeannette

Actress, Stage Director, Playwright

ArtMakers

Douglas Turner Ward

Playwright, Actor, Director

ArtMakers

Charles "Chuck" Smith

Theater Director

ArtMakers

Elizabeth Catlett

Printmaker, Art Professor, Sculptor

ArtMakers

Edward Clark

Painter

ArtMakers

Merton Simpson

Painter

ArtMakers, EntertainmentMakers

Roscoe Lee Browne

Stage Actor, Film Actor, Television Actor

SportsMakers, EntertainmentMakers

Bernie Casey

Film Actor, Football Player

ArtMakers

Bebe Moore Campbell

Fiction Writer

ArtMakers, EntertainmentMakers

Robert Hooks

Stage Producer, Actor

ArtMakers

James Hiram Malone

Cartoonist, Graphic Designer

ArtMakers

Lynn Nottage

Playwright

CivicMakers, SportsMakers

Carl Long

Police Officer, Baseball Player

ArtMakers

Angela Jackson

Playwright, Poet

ArtMakers

Stephanie Hughley

Arts Administrator, Producer

ArtMakers

Amalia Amaki

Mixed Media Artist

ArtMakers

Peg Alston

Art Gallery Owner

SportsMakers, MediaMakers

William Blair, Jr.

Civil Rights Activist, Newspaper Publishing Executive, Baseball Player, Newspaper Publisher

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

ArtMakers

Martha Brock-Leftridge

Photographer

ArtMakers

Melvin Van Peebles

Actor, Film Director, Fiction Writer, Playwright, Writer

SportsMakers

John Carlos

Track and Field Athlete

SportsMakers

Burl Toler, Sr.

Football Referee

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

ArtMakers

Micki Grant

Actress, Lyricist, Songwriter

ArtMakers

Ann Marie Williams

Artistic Director

SportsMakers

Mike Glenn

Television Sports Commentator, Basketball Player

SportsMakers

Calvin Peete

Golfer

ArtMakers

Joyce Owens Anderson

Mixed Media Artist

ArtMakers

Charles Randolph-Wright

Stage Director

ArtMakers, CivicMakers

Georgette Seabrooke Powell

Art Therapist, Nonprofit Chief Executive, Painter

ArtMakers

Randy Duncan

Choreographer, Dancer

ArtMakers

Julie Dash

Filmmaker

ArtMakers

Suzan-Lori Parks

Playwright

ArtMakers

Maurice Hines, Jr.

Choreographer, Entertainer, Stage Director

ArtMakers

Carmen De Lavallade

Choreographer, Actress, Dancer

ArtMakers

Marie Brown

Literary Agent, Magazine Editor, Book Editor

ArtMakers

Kevin Cole

Mixed Media Artist

ArtMakers

Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe

Photographer

ArtMakers

Jack T. Franklin

Photographer

ArtMakers

Howardena Pindell

Visual Artist, Curator