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Footage will be shown at African American Museum in Philadelphia’s third annual Heritage Gala Feb. 29
Artist David C. Driskell’s recent work with Curlee Holton, professor and head of art, and the College’s Experimental Printmaking Institute (EPI) will be featured in a film being screened at the African American Museum in Philadelphia’s third annual Heritage Gala on Feb. 29.
The film focuses on Driskell’s career and the collaboration with EPI which produced a series of 75 limited edition prints of Driskell’s Dance of the Masks. Driskell has donated the series to the museum to be sold as a fund raiser. The gala will be hosted by actor and comedian Bill Cosby.
The prints are just one of many projects that Driskell has created with Holton and students at EPI.
EPI began working with Driskell in 2002 through the Temple Arts Residency, supported by the David L. Temple Sr. and Helen J. Temple Visiting Lecture Series Fund. Lafayette featured Driskell’s works in the winter of 2006 in exhibits, jointly titled Reflections and Memories, which included four prints produced at EPI.
A leading authority on African American art and culture, Driskell is an artist, art historian, curator, and collector whose paintings, prints, and collages often reflect his complex experiences dealing with race. The University of Maryland’s David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora brings together visual arts and diasporic studies and fosters future artists and scholars of color. In December of 2000, President Bill Clinton bestowed the National Humanities Medal on Driskell.
EPI was established by Holton in 1996 to promote research and experimentation within the print medium. Since its inception, the EPI visiting artist and artist in residence programs have introduced students to over 50 artists from diverse cultural and social backgrounds. The visiting artists have provided students with talented, well educated, and ambitious role models. Their residencies have inspired print editions, experimental works, and artists’ books.