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Amaza Lee Meredith broke through racial and gender barriers in architecture and artistic design.

Lynchburg and Petersburg

As founder and artistic director of the Latin Ballet of Virginia, Ana Ines King shares Latin American dance and culture with students and audiences across Virginia.
Recipient of the VABPW Foundation Business Leadership Award

Richmond

An advocate for civil rights, Anne Spencer was also a noted poet of the Harlem Renaissance.

Lynchburg

Harlem Renaissance poet Anne B. Spencer was also an advocate for the civil rights of African Americans.

Lynchburg

Acclaimed novelist and writer Barbara Kingsolver addresses issues of social justice, the environment, and human rights through her fiction and nonfiction.

Washington County

Bessie Niemeyer Marshall created detailed watercolors of plants as part of a federally funded project that rescued a Petersburg park.

Petersburg

An enslaved man, Blind Billy was a renowned Lynchburg fifer.

Lynchburg

An acclaimed lyric soprano and the first African American to receive a contract from a major American opera company, Camilla Ella Williams was a pioneer for black artists in classical music.

Danville

An accomplished artist and musician, Christine Herter Kendall cofounded the Garth Newel Music Center in Bath County.

Bath County

Claudia Emerson received the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and is Virginia's poet laureate.

Fredericksburg