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Art, Art History and Archaeology, College of Arts and Humanities, David C. Driskell Center for the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora

Inaugural David C. and Thelma G. Driskell Award for Creative Excellence

We welcome submissions from emerging scholars and artists who will create new artistic or scholarly work that furthers the Driskell Center’s mission.

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Zoe Copeman article "Deviating from Monstrosity The Paradox of the Normal in Les Ecarts de la Nature by Nicolas-François and Geneviève Regnault" published

November 14, 2023 Art History and Archaeology

Zoe Copeman charts the migration of the monstrous to the pathological in pre- and post-revolutionary France

Department Alumnus Adam Greenhalgh to deliver introductory lecture on Mark Rothko at the National Gallery of Art

November 13, 2023 Art History and Archaeology

Adam Greenhalgh turns his remarkably keen eye and intellect to works on paper by Mark Rothko.

Lillian Wies wins 2023 Chino Kaori Memorial Essay Prize

November 05, 2023 Art History and Archaeology

Lily is the first writing about Japanese art outside of Japan to win this award!

The David C. Driskell Center Archives Research Fellowship Program

July 10, 2023 African American History, Culture and Digital Humanities, Art, Art History and Archaeology, David C. Driskell Center for the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, History

Now accepting proposals from emerging scholars to participate in a fellowship program conducting research in previously undiscovered collections.

Maggie Mastrandrea featured in UMD Libraries' newsletter for exhibition

July 06, 2023 Art History and Archaeology

"Fuji: Mountain as Metaphor in Postwar Japan" highlighted in UMD Libraries yearly magazine

Professor Karin Zitzewitz named Chair of Department

July 06, 2023 Art History and Archaeology

The Department warmly welcomes Professor Zitzewitz as its new permanent Chair

Fall 2023 Leadership Appointments

June 30, 2023 English, Maryland Language Science Center, Communication, David C. Driskell Center for the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, Art History and Archaeology, College of Arts and Humanities

Dean Stephanie Shonekan announces new ARHU leadership appointments.

Jordana Moore Saggese Appointed Director of UMD’s David C. Driskell Center

April 14, 2023 David C. Driskell Center for the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, Art History and Archaeology

Professor of American Art hopes to raise the Driskell Center’s profile and find new ways for the public and campus community to engage with its resources.

Professor Jordana Saggese Appointed as Director of the David C. Driskell Center

April 14, 2023 Art History and Archaeology

Dean Shonekan tabs Professor Saggese to replace outgoing Director Curlee E. Holton

The Washington Informer

Driskell Center Host Print Works By Faith Ringgold and Betye Saar

April 07, 2023 David C. Driskell Center for the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, Art History and Archaeology

The Washington Informer covers “RINGGOLD | SAAR: Meeting on the Matrix.”

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