David C. Driskell Center Print Series

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The Driskell Center is proud to present the David C. Driskell Center Print Series. Prominent African American artists have been invited to create prints that commemorate the significant artistic achievements of Prof. David C. Driskell. The limited edition prints are made available to support the David C. Driskell Center's programming and the Center's efforts to cultivated the next generations of artists of color.

Please contact Deputy Director Dorit Yaron for pricing information at 301.405.6835

Preston Sampson *Mood Indigo* (Duke Ellington's 100th Birthday), 1999 Color serigraph limited edition print Image size 31” x 21.5” Edition of 100	Sampson, born in 1960 in West Palm Beach , Florida , received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Maryland , College Park , in 1984. He is known for his artistic use of vibrant acrylics on canvas, vivid watercolors, and mixed-media collages. A recurring theme of his works include the dominant male figure, drawn to a stately and heroic scale. Sampson has also produced a series of works on the African American men of the Negro Baseball Leagues. Many of his works also include musical themes, jazz melodies in particular. Order form

Michael B. Platt Two Sisters, 2003 Archival pigment on Hahnemühle 34” x 14.5”	Platt was born in 1948 and raised in Washington , D.C. , where he currently resides. He received his BFA at Columbus College of Art and Design in Ohio , and his MFA from Howard University where he currently teaches art. His exhibition record includes many group and solo exhibitions, nationally and internationally. He has held residencies at the Bob Blackburn Printmaking Workshop in New York City and at Pyramid Atlantic in Silver Spring , Maryland . Platt has received numerous grants from the District of Columbia Commission for Arts and Humanities for Individual Artists, and in 1999 received the 15th Washington , D.C. Mayor's Award for Excellence in the Visual Arts. Order form

Faith Ringgold *Mama Can Sing* , 2004 Color serigraph limited edition print Image size 24” x 18” Edition of 100	Faith Ringgold was born in New York in 1930. She received her B.S. in 1955 and her M.A. in 1959 from the City College of New York. Ringgold's style mimics folk art uses acrylic paint to depict stories on cloth quilts that are based on the lives of people she knew while growing up, in this way dispelling myths and negative stereotypes surrounding African Americans and African American culture. She has spent over thirty years as a painter, sculptor, writer, and performance artist. Her work, through story-telling, touches on themes of African American culture, family, mother-daughter relations, marriage, sexuality, and female self-expression. Order form

Joseph Holston *Man in Boat*, 2006 Etching limited edition print 18” x 24” Edition of 100	Joseph Holston was born in Washington , D.C. in 1944. His self-directed study incorporated painting, drawing, and printmaking at Montgomery College in Maryland and Howard University in Washington , D.C. , including mentoring by such notable artists as Louis Mailou Jones and James Lesesne Wells. Holston 's Cubist abstractionist style and multi-media art utilizes bold and vibrant color, as well as subtle black and white etchings. Much of Holston 's works incorporates musical themes and elements. His works are included in several private collections including those of Patti LaBelle, Angela Bassett, and Wynton Marsalis. Order form

Benny Andrews *Blues Player* , 2006 Etching, limited edition print Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle, 23.5” x 18.5” Edition of 75	Benny Andrews is a nationally recognized collage artist, painter, printmaker, sculptor, and illustrator whose work depicts images of his feelings regarding human life. Andrews attended Fort Valley State College, GA, then went on to earn his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the School of the Chicago Art Institute. Andrews' artworks are included in many major permanent collections, such as the High Museum of Art in Atlanta , the Art Institute of Chicago, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art , and the Studio Museum in Harlem, all in New York City . He donated his archives of material about black artists in the 1960s and '70s to Harlem's Studio Museum . A large body of his work resides in the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans . Benny Andrews passed away on November 24, 2006. Order form

David C. Driskell *Yoruba Couple* , 2007 Textured serigraph and relief 24 x 18 in., Edition of 100	This print combines an image from a relief block created in the 1970s with new imagery and iconography from current work by David C. Driskell. *Yoruba Couple* was printed with Master Printmaker Prof. Curlee Raven Holton at the Experimental Printmaking Institute, Lafayette College , Easton , PA. The print has been created by David C. Driskell to celebrate the opening of the David C. Driskell Center at its new home in Cole Student Activities Building at the University of Maryland , College Park . Order form

William T. Williams Karen's Tale, 2008 Serigraph 24 x 18 in, Edition 50	William T. Williams earned his Bachelors of Fine Arts degree from Pratt Institute in 1966, and his Masters of Fine Arts from Yale School of Fine Arts, Yale University in 1968. Born in Cross Creek, North Carolina, he is now a resident of New York City. Over the past thirty years, Williams' work has been exhibited in more than one hundred museums and art centers worldwide. His works can be found in many prestigious collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the North Carolina State Museum, and the Library of Congress.

William T. Williams Bee's Quest, 2008 Serigraph 24 x 18 in, Edition 50	William T. Williams earned his Bachelors of Fine Arts degree from Pratt Institute in 1966, and his Masters of Fine Arts from Yale School of Fine Arts, Yale University in 1968. Born in Cross Creek, North Carolina, he is now a resident of New York City. Over the past thirty years, Williams' work has been exhibited in more than one hundred museums and art centers worldwide. His works can be found in many prestigious collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the North Carolina State Museum, and the Library of Congress.