STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A half dozen teens recently engaged in an abstract painting workshop -- drawing inspiration from painter Alma Woodsey Thomas’ abstract works -- in celebration of Black History ...

Alma Woodsey Thomas was an American painter best known for her colorful, abstract compositions. She frequently translated art historical references, natural phenomena, and personal aesthetic through ...

The Alma Thomas papers capture my fancy because of my long-standing interest in this African American female teacher and painter who lived and worked for much of her life in Washington, D.C. until her ...

THE DAILY PIC (#1646): More than all the “classic” Alma Thomas abstractions in her lovely solo show now at the Studio Museum in Harlem, I was struck by this early piece, titled Sketch for March on ...

Alma Woodsey Thomas became the first ever student to graduate from Howard University with a fine arts degree in 1924. Her artistic journey was anything but conventional from there. Thomas would teach ...

Study for Resurrection / Ross Gay -- Directors' foreword / Marianne Richter, Erik H. Neil -- "Then the light would come around" : an introduction / Seth Feman and Jonathan Frederick Walz -- Sand ...

Catalog of an exhibition organized by and held at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Ind., Sept. 5-Nov. 8, 1998 and touring nationally through Jan. 9, 2000. Exhibition held also at the ...