Shay Youngblood
Shay Youngblood was a distinguished Georgia writer who followed Black roots and routes. Her novels, short stories, and plays explore themes of family and community, as well as topics such as history, ancestry, and sexual identity.
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Ellen Creathorne Clayton
Irish illustrator and writer
Ana Karen Allende Noriega
Mexican writer and toymaker
Lydia May Ames
Distinguished landscape painter
Louise Winslow
Cleveland-based pioneer in sewing, cooking, and craft “how-to” programs on radio and television in the late 1940s, 50s, and 60s.
Helen M Stummer
Photographer who has been documenting Newark’s Central Ward for many years.
Mary Kendall Browne
Championship golfer and tennis player
Dorothy G Payer Shepherd
Curator of Textiles and Near Eastern ART for the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA, 1954-81)
Adele von Ohl Parker
American equestrienne, daredevil rider, vaudeville performer, and from 1929 to 1966 the owner and operator of Parker’s Ranch in Ohio
Theresa Secord
A passionate advocate for preserving the ash and sweetgrass basketmaking heritage of the Wabanaki tribes of Maine (Maliseet, Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot tribes), Theresa Secord is a master basketmaker, still using the basket molds that she inherited from her great-grandmother to shape her art.