Tag: Black women artists
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Washington D.C. honors artist Alma Thomas, the first to earn a fine arts degree from Howard University in 1924, with a street renaming near her longtime studio.
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Discover how Elizabeth Catlett, the first Black woman to earn an MFA from the University of Iowa, used art to celebrate Black women’s strength and resilience.
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