David C. Driskell Distinguished Lecture
David C. Driskell Distinguished Lecture
Join us for the David C. Driskell Distinguished Lecture by Dr. Steven Nelson.
The Driskell Center is excited to announce Steven Nelson, PhD, as this year’s Annual Distinguished Lecturer in the Visual Arts in Honor of David Driskell, part of the 34th James A. Porter Colloquium on African American Art and Art of the African Diaspora.
Dr. Nelson is Dean of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art and a Trustee of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. He was the Andrew W. Mellon Professor at the Center from 2018-2020 and previously served as Director of UCLA’s African Studies Center and President of the Arts Council of the African Studies Association. He has published extensively, and is currently contributing editor for Grove Art Online and reviews editor for Art Journal and Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. Dr. Nelson has taught at UCLA, where he is Professor Emeritus, Tufts University, and Wellesley College. His international academic appointments include the Universidad de los Andes and the Ècole des Hautes Ètudes en Sciences Sociales. In 2023 he co-edited his most recent work, Black Modernisms in the Transatlantic World.