Beverly Buchanan
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.
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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.
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