Video for Black History Month: Alma Thomas

Posted on February 1, 2026 by Andrea R Huelsenbeck

She taught art in a Washington, DC junior high school for 35 years. Then she invented a new style of painting that became known as “Alma Stripes.” Michelle Obama purchased one of her paintings for the dining room in the President’s residence in the White House.

About Andrea R Huelsenbeck

Andrea R Huelsenbeck is a wife, a mother, a grandmother, and a former elementary general music teacher. A freelance writer in the 1990s, her nonfiction articles and book reviews appeared in Raising Arizona Kids, Christian Library Journal, and other publications. She is currently working on a middle grades novel and a poetry collection.

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