David C. Driskell is a scholar in the field of African American art

African American art

African American art is a broad term describing the visual arts of the American black community . Influenced by various cultural traditions, including those of Africa, Europe and the Americas, traditional African American art forms include the range of plastic arts, from basket weaving, pottery,...

 and an artist. Driskell is an emeritus professor at the University of Maryland, College Park

University of Maryland, College Park

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Driskell holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Catholic University

The Catholic University of America

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 and nine Honorary Doctoral degrees. In 2000, Driskell was honored by President Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

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 as one of 12 recipients of the National Humanities Medal.

A publication, David C. Driskell: Artist and Scholar by Julie L. McGee detailing Driskell's life and work, was published in 2006.

Publications by and About Driskell

• Amistad II: Afro-American Art, (editor), Nashville: Fisk University, 1975.
• Two Centuries of Black American Art, Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1976. ISBN 0-87587-070-8
• The Afro-American Collection, Fisk University, with Earl J. Hooks, Nashville: Fisk University, 1976.
• David Driskell: a survey: Art Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, October 21-December 5, 1980, compiled and edited by Edith A. Tonelli, College Park, MD: University of Maryland Art Gallery, 1980.
• Hidden Heritage: Afro-American Art, 1800-1950, San Francisco: The Art Museum Association of America, 1985. ISBN 0-930295-03-X
• Contemporary Visual Expressions: the Art of Sam Gilliam
  Sam Gilliam
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  , Martha Jackson-Jarvis, Keith Morrison
  Keith Morrison
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  , William T. Williams
  William T. Williams
  William T. Williams was born in Cross Creek, North Carolina, United States. He received a BFA degree from Pratt Institute in 1966 and studied at The Skowhegan School of Art. In 1968 he received an MFA degree from Yale University School of Art and Architecture...
  
  , Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1987. ISBN 0-87474-385-0
• Harlem Renaissance: Art of Black America, introduction by Mary Schmidt Campbell; essays by David Driskell, David Levering Lewis, and Deborah Willis Ryan
  Deborah Willis
  Deborah Willis is a contemporary African American artist, photographer, curator of photography, photographic historian, author, and educator. Among other awards and honors she has received, she was a 2000 MacArthur Fellow...
  
  , New York: The Studio Museum in Harlem, 1987. ISBN 0-8109-1099-3
• Introspectives: Contemporary Art by Americans and Brazilians of African descent, curators, Henry J. Drewal and David C. Driskell, Los Angeles: California Afro-American Museum, 1989.
• African American Visual Aesthetics: a Postmodernist View, (editor) Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995. ISBN 1-56098-605-0
• The Other Side of Color: African American Art in the Collection of Camille O. and William H. Cosby, Jr., San Francisco: Pomegranate, 2001. ISBN 0-7649-1455-3
• David C. Driskell: Artist and Scholar, by Julie L. McGee, San Francisco : Pomegranate, 2006. ISBN 0-7649-3747-2
• Evolution: Five Decades of printmaking by David C. Driskell,by Adrienne L. Childs, San Francisco: Pomegranate, 2007. ISBN 978-0-7649-4202

External links

• The David C. Driskell Center For The Study of The Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and The African Diaspora
• David Driskell's oral history video excerpts at The National Visionary Leadership Project