about Sandra Bush, her mother and longtime muse. In it, Sandra talks about careers, relationships, beauty, and her fatal illness. The film made its television debut on HBO on February 24, 2014, and has run regularly since. Commissions In 2019, Rolls-Royce auctioned a custom-designed Phantom luxury car at Sotheby’s to benefit the global AIDS-eradication charity (RED); the winning bidder had the opportunity to decorate the vehicle with a unique wrap made by Thomas. In 2020, Thomas designed a version of Dior’s signature 1947 bar jacket for a cruise collection show held in Marrakech. For Dior’s haute couture show at the Musée Rodin in January 2023, the brand’s creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri commissioned Thomas to create the stage design that served as the show’s backdrop. Mounted on the walls surrounding the museum’s runway floor were collaged black and white images of 13 Black and mixed-race female performers, including Josephine Baker, Diahann Carroll, Marpessa Dawn, Lena Horne, and Nina Simone. Their images, which were overlaid with pink and yellow forms, featured embroidered details produced by the Mumbai-based artisan group Chanakya ateliers and the Chanakya School of Craft. Recognitions and honors Thomas has been awarded multiple prizes and grants, including the BOMB Magazine Honor (2015), MoCADA Artistic Advocacy Award (2015), AICA-USA Best Show in a Commercial Space Nationally, First Place (2014), Anonymous Was A Woman Grant (2013), Audience Award: Favorite Short, Second Annual Black Star Film Festival (2013), Brooklyn Museum Asher B. Durand Award (2012), Timehri Award for Leadership in the Arts (2010), Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant (2009), Pratt Institute Alumni Achievement Award (2009) and Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant (2007). Thomas has held residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, Maine (2013) (resident faculty); Versailles Foundation Munn Artists Program, Giverny, France (2011); Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Aspen, Colorado (2010); Studio Museum in Harlem (2003); Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont (2001); and Yale Norfolk Summer of Music and Art, Norfolk, Connecticut (1999). Notable works in public collectionsPanthera (2002), Studio Museum in Harlem, New YorkInstant Gratification (from Brawling Spitfire Wrestling series) (2005), Rubell Museum, Miami/Washington, D.C.Rumble (from Brawling Spitfire Wrestling series) (2005), Art Institute of ChicagoMama Bush II, Keep the Home Fires Burnin' (2006), Rubell Museum, Miami/Washington, D.C.Remember Me (2006), Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, ConnecticutCan't We Just Sit Down and Talk It Over? (2006-2007), Art Institute of Chicago; and Studio Museum in Harlem, New YorkA Little Taste