An artist accomplished in several media, Emma Amos explored difficult issues concerning politics, gender, race, and cultural history in her work. Her highly expressive visual art combined printmaking, painting, and textiles with photography and collage. She was also known as a teacher, curator, writer, and activist.
Beverly Buchanan found her calling as an artist after pursuing a career in health education and realizing that she wanted to express the images, stories, and architecture of her African American childhood.
Distinguished landscape painter
Championship golfer and tennis player
One of the most popular American painters of the mid-19th century.
Aristocrat and painter; after the French Revolution, she saved her royalist husband’s life by securing him safe passage, by traveling alone across Europe to intercede with Napoleon.
Betty Blayton (1937-2016) was an illustrator, painter, printmaker, and sculptor.
Marie Johnson Calloway (1920-2018) was a mixed-media artist from Baltimore.
Native American basketmaker
Lebanese-American poet, essayist, and visual artist