Regina Carter
Regina Carter is renowned for her mastery of the violin and exploring the instrument’s possibilities in jazz, as well as taking journeys in other genres of music.
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Teresita Fernández
Teresita Fernández, recipient of a 2005 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, is a sculptor and visual artist whose works—often large in scale and inspired by landscape and natural phenomena—explore issues of perception and seeing.
Mary Jackson
A descendent of the Gullah community of coastal South Carolina, Mary Jackson learned the art of making baskets at the age of four from her mother and grandmother.
Annette Gordon-Reed
No historian has done more to recover the stories of enslaved African-Americans than Annette Gordon-Reed, whose 2008 book The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in History, as well as wide acclaim.
Anna Deavere Smith
Through profound performances and plays that blend theater and journalism, she has informed our understanding of social issues and conveyed a range of disparate characters.
Lynda Barry
Barry invented the term “autobiofictionalography” to describe the hybrid nature of her multilayered, multimedia approach that incorporates collage and drawing in ink and watercolor.
Karen Dorn Steele
Karen Dorn Steele is an environmental journalist best known for breaking the story of nuclear experiments causing potential public health damage at the Hanford Nuclear Site.
Muriel Snowden
Co-founded Freedom House, Inc., a Boston nonprofit community-based organization dedicated to human rights and advocacy for African-Americans in Boston. Her leadership moved Freedom House into areas of urban renewal, minority employment, and educational equality for children as well as being a positive force for interracial cooperation
Elma Lewis
Founded the National Center for Afro-American Artists (NCAAA) in 1968 eighteen years after opening the Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts (ELSFA) in Boston
Susan Meiselas
Photojournalist who has won awards for her intense images that are as much at home in newspapers and magazines as they are on museum walls.