
Film
Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color
2021 · 20m · Documentary
An overnight success, 80 years in the making.
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Overview
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
Crew
- Cheri GaulkeDirector
- Sue MayberryWriter
- Jonathan GannProducer
- Chari Glogovac-SmithOriginal Music Composer
Media
Details
- Release date
- July 15, 2021
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 20m
- Budget
- $35,000
- Genres
- Documentary
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