Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color

Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color 2021 Directed by Cheri Gaulke

An overnight success, 80 years in the making.

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.

Country USA

Language English

Spoken Language English

Gnere Documentary

Production Company Reel Plan

Budget $35,000

Release Date 15 July 2021

20 mins