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Ablaze with Color: A Story of Painter Alma Thomas

Jeanne Walker Harvey

This picture-book biography follows Alma Thomas from her childhood in Georgia, where she loved the colors outdoors, through her life as an artist and arts educator. After school segregation pushed her family to Washington, D.C., she earned an art degree and worked to bring arts education to students excluded from it. Near age seventy, she began her own artistic career, creating vibrant geometric paintings built from dashes and dabs of color that later appeared in galleries and museums.

This book appears on 2 reading lists across 2 editions from 2 organizations.

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Themes
Art And Creativity · History · Racism And Prejudice · School · Work And Careers
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published
February 22, 2022
ISBN-13
9780063021891
Language
English
Cooperative Children's Book Center, University of Wisconsin–MadisonCCBC Choices
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