Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color poster

“An overnight success, 80 years in the making.”

Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color (2021)

Name: Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color
Director: Cheri Gaulke
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2021-07-15
Duration: 20 min
Rating: 10.0
Cast: Alfre Woodard

July 15, 202120mEN

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Overview

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.

Director

Cheri Gaulke

Writer

Sue Mayberry