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Performing Race in African American Visual Culture Symposium
Wednesday & Thursday, September 15 -16, 2010
Based on the understanding that race is an ideology performed on a daily basis, this conference will investigate how and why performances of race, mainly African Americans, are manifested or subverted in American visual culture. The panels include “Race and Museum Practices,” “Race and Abstraction,” and “Performance in/of Contemporary African American Art.”
September 15 - Keynote Lecture, Phillips Collection - Paid Event. $15, $5 for students with ID, Free for Phillips Collection members. Click Here to Register
September 16 - Symposium, UMCP - FREE with registration
CALL 301.314.2615 or EMAIL driskellcenter@umd.edu to register
Driskell Center Awarded Prestigious Grant from Institute of Museum and Library Services
COLLEGE PARK – The David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora was recently awarded a $149,719 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services [IMLS]. The two-year grant will provide support for documenting and presenting the Professor David C. Driskell Archive of African American Art, a task central to the Center’s mission to expand and replenish the field of African American art.
University of Maryland, College Park Newsdesk Press Release
The David C. Driskell Center recieves a major gift of works of art by African American artists from the Benny Andrews and Nene Humphrey Collection.
COLLEGE PARK – A new donation by artist and art collector Nene Humphrey will help enhance and diversity the permanent collection of the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora at the University of Maryland. Humphrey's generous gift comprises 156 works of art from the Benny Andrews and Nene Humphrey Collection.
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