Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color (2021)

Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color

2021

Documentary

Synopsis

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.

Credits

Director

Cheri Gaulke

Cast

Alfre Woodard as Alma Thomas (voice)

Crew

Tashel Bean (Animation)

Jacqueline Sage Bennett (Associate Producer)

Kia Baskerville (Associate Producer)

Gene Cowan (Graphic Designer)

Chari Glogovac-Smith (Original Music Composer)

Jonathan Gann (Producer)