The High Museum of Art on Thursday awarded this year’s Driskell Prize in African American Art and Art History to Naomi Beckwith, the deputy director and chief curator of the
It s an all-star lineup of artists names, from Faith Ringgold and Howardena Pindell to Emma Amos, Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, Willie Cole, Bettye Saar, Joyce Scott. 59 in total! These are among the best of the best of contemporary artists, who just happen to be Black. And who just happen to be in the collection of the Montclair Art Museum.
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Long before downtown galleries and national museums welcomed artists of color, Black artists were making distinctive and significant work around Washington.