Artist Inquiry

DRAFT

DRAFT

CAL 3700 African Arts Heritage Artist List Draft

DRAFT

WRITERS

Nella Larsen Angelina Grimke Don Lee (Haki Madhabuti)

Sonia Sanchez Mari Evans Shirley Graham DuBois

Anne Spencer Countee Cullen John Edgar Wideman

Jean Toomer Margaret Walker Ed Bullins

Toni Cade Bambara Virginia Hamilton Alex Haley

Nalo Hopkinson Edgwid Danticat Toni Morrison

Derek Walcott Ralph Ellison belle hooks

Walter Mosley Wallace Thurman Claude McKay

Arna Bontemps Robert Hayden

VISUAL ARTISTS/PHOTOGRAPHERS

Roy DeCarava James Van Der Zee Charles Seebree

Archibald Motley Augusta Fells Savage Oscar Micheaux

Camille Billops Moneta Sleet Jr Carla Weems

Hale Woodruff Arturo Schomburg Gordon Parks

Edmonia Lewis Carrie Mae Weems Lois Mailou Jones

Charles White Hughie Lee Smith Jean-Michel Basquiat

THEATRE/DANCE

Garth Fagan Pearl Primus Carmen DeLavallade

Geoffrey Holder Donald McKayle Rennie Harris

Sarah Jones Alvin Ailey Judith Jamison

Woodie King Jr Lou Bellamy Flournoy Miller

Sissereta Jones Barbara Ann Teer Owen Dodson

Paul Robeson James Hatch Dorothy Dandridge

Ossie Davis Ruby Dee Eartha Kitt

MUSIC

Clifford Brown Billie Strayhorn Dakota Staton

Hugh Maskela Miriam Makeba Jimmy Cliff

Oscar Peterson Sarah Vaughn Ma Rainey

Max Roach Hubert Laws Herbie Hancock

Alice Coltrane Sun Ra Blind Lemon Jefferson

Muddy Waters Howlin’ Wolf DJ Kool Herc

WC Handy Thomas Fats Waller Hazel Scott

Kathleen Battle Horace Silver Archie Shepp

Nina Simone Nat King Cole Jesse Norman

Leontyne Price Don Shirley