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Pickup a take home craft kit at the Youth Desk! Or stop in from 12:30 - 1:30pm to get instruction from our amazing art expert! While supplies last!
Alma Thomas was a teacher, artist, and amazing human who produced colorful and dynamically pattered artwork. She was the first African American woman to have a solo exhibition at New York's Whitney Museum of American Art!
“I’ve never bothered painting the ugly things in life. People struggling, having difficulty. You meet that when you go out, and then you have to come back and see the same thing hanging on the wall. No. I wanted something beautiful that you could sit down and look at. And then, the paintings change you.”
–– Alma Thomas, ca. 1977–78