Gail Hansberry (born 1939) is an American artist and educator.
[3] Hansberry started her career teaching art in Washington, D.C., at Taft Junior High School.
By 1966 Hansberry moved to New York where she worked as a researcher at Time-Life Books and as a freelance photographer.
[1][3] From 1990 through 1992 Hansberry served as the Director of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History.
[5] Her prints and handmade books are held in collections both private and public, including at the North Carolina Museum of Art,[6] Smith College, the Library of Congress, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.