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Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color
Documentary
Director's Choice • 2022
20 min
Washington, DC, US
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. The film explores Thomas’ incredible life through the lens of curators, art specialists, scholars, and her family, with award-winning actress Alfre Woodard as the voice of Miss Thomas.