2014, Carolyn Mazloomi (born 1948)
Carolyn L. Mazloomi is an artist, author, historian, and curator acknowledged as being among the most influential African American quilt historians in the United States. She has produced an awe inspiring body of work, much of it containing references to African American life and history, as well as harkening back to a shared African ancestry.
2015, Juliette Harris of IRAAA and Curlee Raven Holton, Director of the Experimental Printmaking Institute at Lafayette College & Director of The David C. Driskell Center
Juliette Harris is an editor and writer for print media, and a writer and producer for film and electronic media. Formerly editor-in-chief of the International Review of African American Art (IRAAA) published by the Hampton University Museum. Curlee Raven Holton is a master printmaker and painter whose work has been exhibited professionally for over twenty-five years in more than thirty one-person shows and over eighty group shows.
The Anyone Can Fly Foundation's First African American Masters Legacy Award Honoree is Norman Lewis (1909-1979). Normal Lewis was a pivotal figure in American art, a participant in the Harlem art community, an innovator of Abstract Expressionism, and a politically-conscious activist.
Cuesta Benberry received the first Distinguished Scholar Lifetime Achievement Award from the Foundation.
Anyone Can Fly Foundation
Englewood, NJ
The mission of the Anyone Can Fly Foundation is to expand the art establishment's canon to include artists of the African Diaspora and to introduce the Great Masters of African American Art and their art traditions to children and adult audiences. The Foundation is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization supported by people devoted to the visual arts.