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Meta Warrick Fuller was born on June 9, 1877, in Philadelphia. Her family was in the middle class. Her father was a barber and her mother was a hair dresser.
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For five years, Fuller attended the Pennsylvania School of Industrial Art. As the "sculptor of honor" she gained recognition for her clay Head of Medusa and figure of Christ.
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Fuller starting studying at Académie Colarossi and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. She was identified with an elite group of African American artists by critics and historians.
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Around the time Fuller was going to school in Paris, she met Auguste Rodin. Rodin encouraged Fuller to continue sculpting realistically, the thing she loved. The advice he gave invigorated her art, so Fuller exhibited at Samuel Bing's L'Art Nouveau Gallery in 1900.
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In 1907, Fuller attended Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia.
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Fuller married Solomon Carter Fuller, a psychiatrist, in 1909. They had three sons born in 1910,1911, and in 1916. Solomon died in 1953.
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Fuller was the Recipient of the second prize Massachusetts branch of Women's Peace Party.
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The height of Fuller's career was in the 1920s. During this time she created the sculpture, Ethiopia Awakening. This art piece became the most important object in Fuller's career.
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To care for her ailing husband and to recover from tuberculosis herself, Fuller retired her work in the 1950s.
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Before dying, Fuller returned to sculpture and created tributes to the Civil Rights Movement. Meta Warrick Fuller died at age 90 on March 13, 1968 in Framingham, Massachusetts.
