COLLEGE PARK, MD – Jazz and the visual arts come together in tandem to unveil American art’s foray into the interplay between jazz and the visual arts in Convergence: Jazz, Films, and the Visual Arts. The exhibition features 70 works by innovative artists and filmmakers, mostly African Americans, whose works depict and/or are influenced by Jazz music and culture. This traveling exhibition offers intimate expressions of sound and imagery that explore the depths of African American visual arts and demonstrate the complexity of American visual culture. Convergence will open with a reception at the David C. Driskell Center on Thursday, February 14 at 5:00PM, and will be on display through May 31, 2013.

The Driskell Center will be open this Saturday, May 4th 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM. Please come view our current exhibition as this is the last weekend-day that the Center will be open for this exhibition. We look forward to seeing you on Saturday!

COLLEGE PARK, MD – The University of Maryland’s David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora will organize and present an exhibition of works by Prof. David C. Driskell, titled A Vision of Paradise. The exhibition will be hosted by Gallery Ami-Kanoko in Osaka, Japan, and is scheduled to show from May 13th through May 24th 2013.

COLLEGE PARK, MD – The University of Maryland’s David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora (Driskell Center) announced on February 7, 2013 a bequest of about 270 collected artworks valued at more than $2.2 million from the estate of the late Sandra Anderson Baccus and her husband, Lloyd T. Baccus, M.D. Mrs. Baccus, who passed in 2012, and her husband, who passed in 2006, lived in Roswell, Ga. where they led their medical business, Correctional Medial Associates, Inc., for more than 25 years. Mrs. Baccus served on the Driskell Center board from 2004 to 2006.