Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color
100 %|Jul 15, 2021|Documentary
Alma W. Thomas lived a life of firsts: the first Fine Arts graduate of Howard University (1924), the first Black woman to mount a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art (1972), and the first Black woman to have her paintings exhibited in the White House (2009). Yet she did not receive national attention until she was 80.
Featured Crew
Jonathan Gann
Producer
Cheri Gaulke
Director
Kia Baskerville
Associate Producer
Jacqueline Sage Bennett
Associate Producer
Kelley Baker
Sound Designer
Chari Glogovac-Smith
Original Music Composer
Gene Cowan
Graphic Designer
Tashel Bean
Animation
Cast
Alfre Woodard
Alma Thomas (voice)