[1] She attended Booker T. Washington High School, where she was a member of and created marionettes for the Doll Theatre Club.
[2] She graduated from Spelman College in 1945 with a degree in art, where she worked closely with Hale Woodruff.
[4] She also studied at the Art Students League of New York and the Universidad Nacional de México.
[6][1] By 1974, one of her paintings, "Black Soul", was held by the Johnson Publishing Company Art Collection in Chicago.
[7] In 1991, she donated her high school collection of marionettes to the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta.