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David C. Driskell and Sam Gilliam are among the world-renowned artists brought to the Experimental Printmaking Institute through the Temple Arts Residency, supported by the David L. Temple Sr. and Helen J. Temple Visiting Lecture Series Fund, established by Riley K. Temple ’71
David C. Driskell
Lafayette featured Driskell’s works last winter in exhibits, jointly titled Reflections and Memories, that included four prints produced at EPI. A leading authority on African American art and culture, he 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.
Sam Gilliam
Acclaimed as the leading African American artist today and one of the two most important African American artists of the last century, Gilliam collaborated with Australian master printmaker Wayne Crothers to create a work of art in EPI’s Master Artist/Master Printmaker Portfolio. EPI produced Gilliam’s print “Wind,” the National Black Arts Festival’s Collectors’ Guild print for 2005. Gilliam was Grossman Artist-in-Residence in 2001, and a show of his works was the inaugural exhibit in the Grossman Gallery in the Williams Visual Arts Building.