标题: 艾尔玛-刘易斯 艺术教育家 [打印本页] 作者: shiyi18 时间: 2022-3-2 01:16 标题: 艾尔玛-刘易斯 艺术教育家 Elma Lewis
Arts Educator | Class of June 1981
Title
Arts Educator
Location
Roxbury, Massachusetts
Age
60 at time of award
Deceased
January 1, 2004
Area of Focus
Arts Entrepreneurship/Management, Arts Education
Published June 1, 1981
Elma Lewis was an educator and the founder and artistic director of the Boston-based, National Center for Afro-American Artists.
Lewis promoted and integrated black culture into American life through the National Center for Afro-American Artists and its teaching division, the Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts, which she founded in 1950. She produced works of dance, music, and drama, and influenced other institutions to expand their perspectives and interests to include African-American culture. She also operated the Elma Lewis Playhouse in the Park, a summer theater where musicians played to capacity audiences, and designed a curriculum on black culture for use in public schools.
Lewis was the artistic director of the Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts and was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Prior to founding the school, she worked as a director and choreographer for the Robert Gould Shaw House Chorus, as a fine arts worker at the Harriet Tubman House, and as a speech therapy instructor at the Habit Clinic of Boston. In 1983, she was awarded the Presidential Medal for the Arts.
Lewis received a B.L.I. (1943) from Emerson College and a M.Ed. (1944) from Boston University.