Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color (2021)

2021 Documentary

Movie Name: Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color (2021)
Directed by: Cheri Gaulke
Written by: Sue Mayberry
Starring by: Alfre Woodard
Genres: Documentary
Language: English

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.