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Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color (2021)
An overnight success, 80 years in the making.
20 minDocumentary
TMDb10.0/101 votes
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
Awards: 2 wins & 2 nominations total
Cast
Alfre Woodard
Alma Thomas (voice)
Keywords
Plot:artistpainterartafrican american
Place:washington dc, usa
