Scheduled Presenters

Valerie Cassel Oliver, Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and David C. Driskell Prize recipient (2011)

Lyle Ashton Harris, artist; professor of art and art education, New York University, and David C. Driskell Prize recipient (2014)

Curlee Raven Holton, artist, art historian, master printmaker, David M. and Linda Roth Professor of Art Emeritus, and director (2012–present), David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora at the University of Maryland, College Park

Julie L. McGee, associate professor of Africana studies and art history, and director, Interdisciplinary Humanities Research Center at the University of Delaware; author of David C. Driskell: Artist and Scholar; and curator of David Driskell: Icons of Nature and History (High Museum of Art, February 6–May 9, 2021; Portland Museum of Art, June 19–September 12, 2021; and The Phillips Collection, October 16, 2021–January 9, 2022)

Keith Morrison, artist, art educator, curator, art critic, administrator, and former dean and professor emeritus of painting, Tyler School of Art & Architecture, Temple University

Mary Lovelace O’Neal, artist, and professor emerita, department of art practice, University of California, Berkeley

Jefferson Pinder, artist; professor of sculpture and dean of faculty, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; and Fellowship Recipient in Art from the David C. Driskell Center (2002–2003)

Frank Stewart, artist and senior staff photographer, Jazz at Lincoln Center

Alvia J. Wardlaw, professor of art history, department of visual and performing arts, and curator and director of the University Museum, Texas Southern University

Sarah Workneh, co-director, Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture

Carrie Mae Weems, artist, and University Artist in Residence, Syracuse University

John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art: A Tribute to David C. Driskell