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

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

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

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

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

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.”

Public Art @ UMD: Request for Proposals

March 17, 2023 Art History and Archaeology

Artists are called to submitted proposals for a temporary Public Art project on the UMD campus

PGCTV Online

Ringgold and Saar: Meeting on the Matrix Exhibition

March 16, 2023 Art History and Archaeology, David C. Driskell Center for the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora

Driskell Center exhibition, curated by Department of Art History and Archaeology graduate students, featured on PGCTV.

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