High Museum

February 16, 2008, 2PM

Book Signing and Panel Discussion: A Conversation with David C. Driskell

Free with Museum admission and free for members

Artist, educator, historian, curator, and humanitarian, David Driskell will talk with Michael Harris, the High's Curator of African American Art, and Julie McGee, author of David C. Driskell: Artist and Scholar. They will discuss Driskell’s southern upbringing, his education in Washington, DC, at Howard and Catholic Universities, and the many people with whom his life has intersected, including artists Romare Bearden and Jacob Lawrence, all of which helped to set the stage for Driskell’s remarkably productive and influential life.  In 2000, he was the recipient of the National Humanities Medal from former President Bill Clinton. One year later, the University of Maryland, College Park, established the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora.