"An overnight success, 80 years in the making."15 July 2021Factual20 mins
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.
Watch the official Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color 2021 trailer in HD below.
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