Alma woodsey thomas
When Alma was a child she showed her intrest in art by making puppets and sculptres at home. She attended Armstrong Technical High School,This is where she took her first art classes. After she graduated from high school in 1911,she studied kindergarten education at Miner Normal school until 1913 came. Which means she studied kindergarten education for two years.She then served as a subsitute teacher in Washington until 1914 when she obtained permanent teaching position of the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Two years later after she obtained the permanent in 1916,she started teaching kindergarten at the Thomas Garrett Settlement House in Wilmington Delaware, she stayed there until 1923 which is 7 years.Time in the 1960s she emerged as an exuberent colorist,she was abstracting shapes and patterns from trees and flowers around her.
mary edmonia lewis
Mary was taking out of college because she was fasley accused of stealing paint brushes from her art teacher and poisoning two white students. She head off for Boston and there she met William Lylod Brackett and Edward August Garrison. Edward was a sculptor and William was an abolitionist. Edward taught Mary how to sculpt . John Brown and other abolitionist gave Mary a small commercial success.