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Ed Spriggs

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Art professor and curator Edward Spriggs was born in 1943 in Cleveland, Ohio. Spriggs received his B.A. degree in studio and art history from San Francisco State College in 1965.
In 1964, Spriggs was a founding member of the journal, Black Dialogue based out of San Francisco State College. The journal was a forum for young black artists, activists, and intellectuals of the Black Arts Movement to build new communities among themselves and to articulate their black cultural and political ideas. After the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, Spriggs was catalyzed into action and began to focus his energies towards the cause. That same year, he joined LeRoi Jones’s Black Arts Repertory Theatre and School as a printmaking instructor. During this time, Spriggs also joined a small film...

Ron Adams Printmaker, Graphic Designer	Samuel Akainyah Art Gallery Owner	Jim Alexander Photographer	Billie Allen Actress, Stage Director	Linda Marie Allen Interior Designer
Peg Alston Art Gallery Owner	Amalia Amaki Mixed Media Artist, Curator, Art History Professor	Maya Angelou Poet	Howard Armstrong Painter, Country and Blues Musician	Ralph Arnold Mixed Media Artist, Art Professor
James Avery Stage Actor, Television Actor	Orlando Bagwell Filmmaker	Ronald Gilbert Baker Photographer	Donald Baker Photographer	Etta Moten Barnett Stage Actress, Singer
Robert Battle Dancer, Choreographer	George Beach Graphic Artist, Advertising Chief Executive	Phoebe Beasley Collage Artist	John Beasley Actor, Theater Chief Executive, Stage Director	Ruth Beckford Choreographer, Dancer
Dawoud Bey Photographer	Camille Billops Fine Artist, Archivist, Film Producer	Bob Black Photographer	Darlene Blackburn Choreographer, Dancer, Dance Instructor	Marla Blakey Choreographer, Dancer
David Bodrick Photographer, Photography Entrepreneur	Martha Brock Photographer	Queen Brooks Visual Artist	Ernestine Brown Art Gallery Owner	Abena Joan P. Brown Stage Producer, Nonprofit Chief Executive
Oscar Brown, Jr. Poet, Entertainer, Music Composer	Robert H. Brown Painter, Cartoonist	Malcolm Brown Painter, High School Art Teacher	Roscoe Lee Browne Stage Actor, Film Actor, Television Actor	Homer Bryant Dancer, Dance Instructor
Ed Bullins Playwright	Gloria Burgess Poet, Business Consultant	Margaret Burroughs Printmaker, Museum Director	Lilian Thomas Burwell Painter, High School Art Teacher	Bebe Moore Campbell Fiction Writer, Author
Shari Carpenter Filmmaker	Bob Carter Art Professor	Elizabeth Catlett Printmaker, Art Professor, Sculptor	Ferne Yangyeitie Caulker Choreographer, Dance Professor, Dancer	Nick Cave Performance Artist, Art Professor
Ayoka Chenzira Animator, Communications Professor, Film Professor, Film Director	R. Gregory Christie Illustrator	Erma L. Clanton Playwright, High School English Teacher, Theater Professor	Edward Clark Painter	Pearl Cleage Essayist, Fiction Writer, Playwright
Joseph Daniel Clipper Photographer	Kevin Cole Mixed Media Artist, Art Professor	Johnny Coleman Installation Artist, Art Professor	Allan Crite Painter	Julie Dash Filmmaker
Ossie Davis Film Director, Screenwriter, Stage Actor, Film Actor	Willis Bing Davis Mixed Media Artist, Art Professor	Ruby Dee Stage Actress, Film Actress	Carmen De Lavallade Choreographer, Actress, Dancer	Amina J. Dickerson Playwright, Foundation Executive
Jeff Donaldson Painter	Frederick Douglass Cultural Heritage Lecturer, Photojournalist	Rita Frances Dove Fiction Writer, English Professor, Poet	David Driskell Art Professor, Curator, Fine Artist	Bill Duke Actor, Film Director
Randy Duncan Choreographer, Dancer	Katherine Dunham Choreographer, Dancer, Dance Instructor	Ed Dwight Sculptor, Test Pilot	Elaine Ellis Dancer	George W. Faison Choreographer, Dancer
Florence Farley Visual Artist, Psychology Professor, Mayor	Sharon Farmer Photographer	Ausbra Ford Sculptor, Art Professor	Sandra Fortune-Green Ballet Dancer, Dance Instructor	Muriel W. Foster Dance Instructor
Jack T. Franklin Photographer	Arthur Wellesley French Stage Actor, Film Actor, Stage Director	Edmund B. Gaither Curator	Sam Gilliam Painter	Nikki Giovanni Poet
Ronald Glass Stage Actor, Television Actor	Paul D. Goodnight Painter	Joan Gray Nonprofit Chief Executive	Jonathan Green Painter, Printmaker	Samuel Greenlee Fiction Writer, Poet
Jefferson Eugene Grigsby Fine Artist, Art Professor, High School Art Teacher	James Guilford Painter, Barber	Jasmine Guy Entertainer, Actress	Tyree Guyton Public Artist	Joel Hall Choreographer, Dance Instructor
Jack Hampton Stained Glass Artist	Della Hardman Art Professor	E. Lynn Harris Fiction Writer	Paul Carter Harrison Playwright, Theater Professor	Ronne Hartfield Curator
Vivian D. Hewitt Art Collector, Chief Librarian	Maurice Hines Choreographer, Entertainer, Stage Director	Geoffrey Holder Dancer, Film Actor, Stage Director, Painter	Robert Hooks Stage Producer, Actor	Wade Hudson Fiction Writer, Book Publishing Executive
Cheryl Willis Hudson Fiction Writer, Book Publisher	Eloise Demaris Hughes Dancer	Stephanie Hughley Arts Administrator, Stage Producer	Richard Hunt Sculptor, Painter	Najwa I Artistic Director, Dancer
Preston Jackson Sculptor	Angela Jackson Playwright, Poet	Wadsworth A. Jarrell Painter	Gertrude Hadley Jeannette Actress, Stage Director, Playwright	Marjorie Witt Johnson Dance Instructor, Dancer
Louis Johnson Ballet Dancer, Dance Professor, Choreographer	Robert C. Johnson Playwright, Africana Studies Professor, Lawyer	Okoro Harold Johnson Playwright, Stage Actor, Theater Director	Jason Miccolo Johnson Photographer	Marie Johnson-Calloway Painter, Art Professor
Ludie Jones Dancer, Dance Instructor	Doris Jones Artistic Director, Dance Instructor	Nathan Jones Painter, Architect, Inventor	Mona Lake Jones Poet, Education Administrator, Motivational Speaker	Malik Yusef Jones Spoken Word Artist
Napoleon Jones-Henderson Mixed Media Artist	Kojo Kamau Photographer	Alice Key Dancer, Community Activist, Newspaper Columnist	Ricardo Khan Stage Director, Artistic Director	Woodie King Stage Director, Theater Director
Leslie King-Hammond Installation Artist, Academic Administrator, Art History Professor, Curator	Florence Ladd Fiction Writer, Academic Administrator	Artis Lane Sculptor, Painter	Annie Lee Painter	Harry J. Lennix Stage Actor, Film Actor
Kenny Leon Stage Director, Theater Chief Executive	Samella Lewis Printmaker	Vernell Lillie Stage Director	Jon Onye Lockard Muralist, Art Professor, Painter	Richard Long Author
Frank Lucas Graphic Designer	Janet Angel MacLachlan Stage Actress, Film Actress	Naomi Long Madgett Poet, English Professor	Haki Madhubuti Poet, Publisher	James Hiram Malone Cartoonist, Graphic Designer
Douglas Alan-Mann Stage Actor, Stage Director	Kerry James Marshall Painter	Walter Mason Stage Actor, Production Manager, Stage Director, Stage Production Manager	Noel Mayo Industrial Designer, Design Professor	Patric McCoy Art Collector, Curator
Geraldine McCullough Art Professor, Painter, Sculptor	Dianne McIntyre Choreographer, Dancer	Lamonte McLemore Photographer, Singer	Ayisha McMillan Dancer	Terry McMillan Fiction Writer
Armelia McQueen Actress	Bertrand Miles Photographer	E. Ethelbert Miller Poet, Academic Administrator	Thomas Miller Graphic Designer, Painter	Evangeline Montgomery Printmaker, Curator, Mixed Media Artist
Marjorie Moon Stage Director, Stage Producer	Melba Moore Stage Actress, Musical Singer, Singer	Curtis "Kojo" Morrow Jewelry Artist	Thaddeus Mosley Sculptor	Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe Photographer, Civic Activist
Lewis Myers Actor	Walter Dean Myers Fiction Writer	George N'Namdi Art Gallery Owner	Isobel Neal Art Gallery Owner	Denise Nicholas Actress, Fiction Writer
Floyd Norman Animator, Scriptwriter	Lynn Nottage Playwright	Ras Ammar Nsoroma Muralist	Joyce Owens Mixed Media Artist	Abiodun Oyewole Poet, Spoken Word Artist
Lorenzo Pace Mixed Media Artist	Judy Pace-Flood Stage Actress, Film Actress	Ken Page Actor	Edward Parker Art Professor, Cultural Heritage Chief Executive, Sculptor	Daniel Texidor Parker Art Collector, Curator, Educator
Gordon Parks Fiction Writer, Film Director, Photographer	Suzan-Lori Parks Playwright	Freda Payne Stage Actress, Singer	Useni Eugene Perkins Poet, Foundation Chief Executive	Howardena Pindell Collage Artist, Art Professor, Curator
Marva Lee Pitchford-Jolly Sculptor	Sterling Plumpp Jazz and Blues Poet, African American Studies Professor, English Professor	Eleo Pomare Choreographer, Dancer	Georgette Seabrooke Powell Art Therapist, Nonprofit Chief Executive, Painter	Isabelle Powell Dancer, Teacher's Aide
Opalanga D. Pugh Professional Storyteller	Madeline Murphy Rabb Art Consultant, Curator, Jewelry Artist	Alice Randall Fiction Writer, Screenwriter, Lyricist	Herbert Randall Photographer	Charles Randolph-Wright Choreographer, Film Director
Lee Ransaw Fine Artist, Art Professor	Fay Ray Dancer	James Earl Reid Sculptor, Painter	Geraldine Rhodes Kennedy Dance Group Manager	Lloyd Richards Stage Actor, Academic Administrator, Theater Director
Cleo Parker Robinson Artistic Director, Choreographer, Dancer	Kenneth G. Rodgers Fine Artist, Curator, Art History Professor, Museum Director	Synthia Saint James Visual Artist	Kalamu ya Salaam Poet, Magazine Editor, Music Critic	Sonia Sanchez Poet, English Professor
Michael A. Schultz Film Director	Oz Scott Stage Director, Television Director, Television Producer	S. Pearl Sharp Playwright, Film Actress, Stage Actress, Poet	Howard Simmons Commercial Photographer	Philip Simmons Blacksmith
Merton Simpson Painter	Brenda Singletary Mixed Media Artist	Cedric Smith Painter, Photographer	Charles Smith Theater Director	Nicole Smith Curator
Prince Spencer Dancer	Ed Spriggs Art Professor, Curator	Sylvia Sprinkle-Hamlin Theater Chief Executive, Library Director	Lou Stovall Printmaker	Allen Stringfellow Collage Artist, Watercolor Artist
Julian Marvin Swain Choreographer, Dancer	Jackie Taylor Stage Actress, Stage Director, Stage Producer	Barbara Ann Teer Arts Administrator, Theater Chief Executive	Askia Toure' Poet, Civil Rights Activist, African American Studies Professor, Printing Entrepreneur	Glenn Tunstull Fashion Illustrator, Painter
Morrie Turner Cartoonist	Melvin Van Peebles Actor, Film Director, Fiction Writer, Playwright	Glory Van Scott Dancer, Theater Professor, Stage Actress	Adam Wade Actor, Singer, Stage Producer	Douglas Turner Ward Playwright, Stage Actor, Stage Director
Val Gray Ward Artistic Director, Stage Actress, Stage Director, Stage Producer	Zenobia Washington Doll Artist	Sylvia Waters Dance Group Manager, Dancer	Zonia T. Way Interior Design Consultant	Eric Werner Photographer
Josh White Actor, Folk Singer	Ann Marie Williams Artistic Director	William T. Williams Painter, Art Professor	Deborah Willis Photographer, Curator, Photography Professor	Serena Strother Wilson Quilter, Elementary School Teacher
LeRoy Winbush Graphic Designer	Susan Cayton Woodson Art Collector	Shirley Ann Woodson-Reid Painter, Art Education Specialist	Jawole Willa Jo Zollar Artistic Director, Dancer