Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color
An overnight success, 80 years in the making.
July 15, 2021
20 min
✓ Released 1731 days ago
Documentary
10.0
User Score
1 votes
About
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.
Movie Info
Status: Released
Director: Cheri Gaulke
Runtime: 20 min
Budget: $35,000
Top Cast
Alfre Woodard
Alma Thomas (voice)
