Elma Lewis
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Gender | Female |
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Death | 20 years ago |
Date of birth | September 15,1921 |
Zodiac sign | Virgo |
Born | Boston |
Massachusetts | |
United States | |
Date of died | January 1,2004 |
Died | Boston |
Massachusetts | |
United States | |
Founded | National Center Of Afro-American Artists |
Elma Lewis School Of Fine Arts | |
Job | Teaching artist |
Education | Wheelock College of Education and Human Development |
Emerson College | |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 1676798 |
Elma Lewis Life story
Elma Ina Lewis was an American arts educator and the founder of the National Center of Afro-American Artists and The Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts. She was one of the first recipients of a MacArthur Fellows Grant, in 1981, and received a Presidential Medal for the Arts by President Ronald Reagan in 1983.