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HAPPY 100Th

Celebrating the Life, Legacy and 100th Year of Miss Elma Lewis!  This monthly live video podcast series launches on her birthday, September 15, 2021.  

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Presented by: Barry Gaither,
Director at NCAAA Museum.

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. 
Born: September 15, 1921, Boston, MA
Died: January 1, 2004, Boston, MA

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