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Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color

directed by Cheri Gaulke

An overnight success, 80 years in the making.

202120m★ 10.0
Documentary
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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

Alfre Woodard

Alfre Woodard

Alma Thomas (voice)

details

Director

Cheri Gaulke

Language

EN

Budget

$35,000

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