Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color

20m
Documentary
10

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.

Cast

Alfre Woodard
Alma Thomas (voice)

Crew

Cheri Gaulke
Director
Sue Mayberry
Writer
Jonathan Gann
Producer
Jacqueline Sage Bennett
Associate Producer
Kia Baskerville
Associate Producer
Tashel Bean
Animation
Kelley Baker
Sound Designer
Chari Glogovac-Smith
Original Music Composer
Gene Cowan
Graphic Designer

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