This retrospective exhibition celebrates the life and work of Alma Thomas, a pioneering African American artist who was a major figure in the Washington Color School. Through a selection of her vibrant abstract paintings, this exhibition explores Thomas’s use of color
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Alma Woodsey Thomas was an American artist and art teacher who lived and worked in Washington, D.C., and is now recognized as a major American painter of the 20th century. She is the first African-American woman to be included in the White House's permanent art collection. Thomas is best known for the "exuberant", colorful, abstract paintings that she created after she retired from a 35-year career teaching art at Washington's Shaw Junior High School.