The HistoryMakers

Raoul Abdul Singer & Author	Samuel Akainyah Artist, Educator & Gallery Owner	Jim Alexander Photographer
Linda Marie Allen Interior Designer & Lighting Director	Billie Allen Actor, Dancer & Director	Peg Alston Private Art Dealer
Amalia Amaki Artist, Educator & Curator	June Sallee Antoine Arts Administrator	Ralph Arnold Visual Artist
Orlando Bagwell Documentary Filmmaker	Donald Baker Photogapher	Ronald Baker Photographer
George Beach Artist & Advertiser	Phoebe Beasley Artist, Lecturer & Entrepreneur	Ruth Beckford Dancer & Choreographer
Dawoud Bey Photographer	Camille Billops Artist & Filmmaker	Bob Black Photographer
Darlene Blackburn Dancer	Marla D. Blakey Dancer, Choreographer, & Theatrical Producer	Tonya Bolden Author & Publisher
Martha Brock Photographer	Malcolm Brown Visual Artist	Ernestine Brown Art Gallery Owner
Marie Dutton Brown Literary Agent & Publishing Consultant	Abena Joan Brown Theater Founder	Robert �Buck� Brown Cartoonist & Painter
Anne Brown Classical Singer & Stage Actress	Ed Bullins Playwright	Khephra Burns Author
Margaret Burroughs Artist and Museum Founder	Lilian Thomas Burwell Visual Artist	Bebe Moore Campbell Author
Elizabeth Catlett Printmaker & Sculptor	Ferne Yangyeitie Caulker Dancer, Choreographer & Educator	Nick Cave Performance Artist
Ayoka Chenzira Director, Producer, Screenwriter & Animator	Gregory Christie Illustrator & Freelance Artist	Erma Clanton Playwright & Educator
Ed Clark Abstract Painter	Veronica Claypool Theatrical Manager	Pearl Cleage Author
Joseph Daniel Clipper Portrait Artist	Kevin Cole Artist & Art Educator	Johnny Coleman Artist & Educator
Augustus Colson Graphic Artist	Allan Crite Artist	Willis �Bing� Davis Artist, Curator & Art Educator
Carolyn Armenta Davis Curator, Lecturer & Writer	Carmen De Lavallade Dancer, Choreographer & Actress	Miriam DeCosta-Willis Professor & Writer
Jeff Donaldson AFRI-COBRA Artist	Rita Dove Author, Poet & Educator	David Driskell Artist & Scholar
Randy Duncan Choreographer & Dancer	Ed Dwight, Jr. Sculptor and Astronaut	Sharon Farmer Former White House Photographer
Ausbra Ford Sculptor & Educator	Sandra Fortune-Green Former Ballerina & Educator	Muriel Foster Dance Instructor
Jack T. Franklin Photographer	Arthur French Actor & Director	Edmund Barry Gaither Museum Founder and Curator
Sam Gilliam Painter	Nikki Giovanni Poet & Educator	Paul Goodnight Painter
Micki Grant Lyricist, Composer, Writer & Performer	Joan Gray Dance Company Director & Nonprofit Chief Executive	William Greaves Filmmaker
Jonathan Green Painter & Printmaker	Sam Greenlee Writer & Poet	Jefferson Eugene Grigsby Artist & Art Educator
Tyree Guyton Public Artist & Heidelberg Project Founder	Joel Hall Choreographer	Jack Hampton Stained Glass Artist
E. Lynn Harris Fiction Writer	Paul Carter Harrison Dramatist	Charles Harrison Industrial Designer
Ronne Hartfield Arts Administrator	Cecil Hayes Interior Designer	Jeffery Henderson Chef
Vivian Hewitt Librarian & Art Collector	Chester Higgins, Jr. Photographer & Author	Geoffrey Holder Artist & Entertainer
Wade Hudson Children�s Book Publisher & Author	Cheryl Willis Hudson Children's Book Publisher & Author	Stephanie Smith Hughley Artistic Director & Producer
Doris Humphries Dancer	Richard Hunt Sculptor	Earl Ofari Hutchinson Author & Political Analyst
Najwa I Dancer & Choreographer	Preston Jackson Sculptor, Art Educator & Gallery Owner	Angela Jackson Poet, Playwright & Fiction Writer
Wadsworth A. Jarrell, Sr. AFRI-COBRA Artist	Okoro Harold Johnson Actor, Director & Playwright	Marjorie Witt Johnson Dancer, Dance Instructor & Social Worker
Jason Miccolo Johnson Photographer	Marie Johnson Calloway Artist	Nathan Jones Artist, Architect & Inventor
Doris Jones Ballet Dancer & Instructor	Mona Lake Jones Poet, Educator & Motivational Speaker	Ricardo Khan Theatrical Director
Curtis King Arts Administrator	Woodie King, Jr. Theater Founder & Director	Leslie King-Hammond Artist, Historian, Curator & Educator
Ted Landsmark College President	Artis Lane Portrait Artist	Annie Frances Lee Artist
Kenny Leon Theatrical Director	Samella Lewis Artist & Art Historian	Elma Lewis Cultural Center Founder
Roy Lewis Photographer	Vernell A. Lillie Theatre Founder & Educator	Jon Onye Lockard Painter and educator
Richard Long Educator & Art Historian	Frank Lucas Graphic Designer	Naomi Long Madgett Poet Laureate
Haki Madhubuti Poet, Third World Press	James Hiram Malone Graphic Artist, Writer, Painter & Cartoonist	Kerry James Marshall Painter
Walter Mason Theatrical Director, Production Manager & Actor	Noel Mayo Industrial Designer	Patric McCoy Art Collector & Environmental Chemist
Geraldine McCullough Sculptor and Painter	Dianne McIntyre Choreographer	Terry McMillan Best-Selling Author
Ayisha McMillan Ballerina	Bertrand Miles Photographer	E. Ethelbert Miller Poet & Author
Thomas Miller Artist & Graphic Designer	Evangeline Montgomery Artist	Marjorie Moon Theatre Producer & Director
Curtis �Kojo� Morrow Craftsman & Author	Thaddeus Mosley Sculptor	Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe Photographer
Walter Dean Myers Author	Isobel Neal Art Gallery Owner	Bennetta Nelson-West Arts Administrator & Educator
Floyd Norman Animator, Artist & Writer	Lynn Nottage Playwright	Ras Ammar Nsoroma Artist
George N�Namdi Educator & Art Gallery Owner	Joyce Owens Artist & Art Educator	Abiodun Oyewole Poet & Spoken Word Artist, The Last Poets
Lorenzo Pace Artist	Ken Page Actor, Writer & Director	Edward E. Parker Artist & Entrepreneur
Suzan-Lori Parks Playwright	Gordon Parks, Sr. Photographer, Writer & Director	Useni Eugene Perkins Poet, Playwright & Activist
Howardena Pindell Artist, Art Educator & Curator	Marva Lee Pitchford-Jolly Sculptor & Educator	Sterling Plumpp Poet & Professor
Eleo Pomare Choreographer & Dancer	Georgette Powell Artist, Art Therapist & Art Educator	Opalanga D. Pugh Professional Storyteller
Madeline Murphy Rabb Artist & Art Consultant	Herbert Randall Photographer	Alice Randall Novelist, Songwriter & Screenwriter
James Reid Sculptor	Lloyd Richards Actor and Theatrical Director	Cleo Parker Robinson Dancer & Choreographer
Kenneth G. Rodgers Artist, Art Historian & Curator	Synthia Saint James Artist & Author	Kalamu ya Salaam Poet & Arts Administrator
Sonia Sanchez Poet & Educator	Joan Delores Sandler Arts Educator	Daryl Shular Chef & Educator
Philip Simmons Blacksmith	Merton Simpson Painter	Brenda Singletary Artist
Cedric Smith Artist	Chuck Smith Theatre Director	A.B. Spellman, Jr. Writer & NEA Executive
Lou Stovall Printmaker	Allen Stringfellow Artist	Robert Stull Comic Book Artist
Jackie Taylor Theater Founder	Barbara Ann Teer Founder, National Black Theatre	Askia M. Tour� Poet , Author & Educator
Glenn Tunstull Fashion Artist & Painter	Morrie Turner Cartoonist	Glory Van Scott Dancer, Producer & Playwright
Darwin McBeth Walton Author & Educator	Val Gray Ward Theater Founder	Douglas Turner Ward Actor & Playwright
Zenobia Washington Artist	Eric Werner Photographer	Ann Marie Williams Artistic Director
William T. Williams Artist & Art Educator	Serena Wilson Quilter & Educator	LeRoy Winbush Commercial Artist & Scuba Diver
Susan Cayton Woodson Art Collector	Shirley Woodson-Reid Artist & Art Educator	Malik Yusef Spoken Word Artist
Jawole Willa Jo Zollar Choreographer & Dancer