Philanthropists Kenneth and Kathryn Chenault have donated $2 million to Howard University in memory of their longtime friend and mentor, the late Vernon Jordan, to support an endowed chair at the School of Law.
Chenaults gift $100,000 to start endowed scholarship fund at NJCU roi-nj.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from roi-nj.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Charles Cassell, architect and early advocate of D.C. statehood, dies at 96 washingtonpost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from washingtonpost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
L-R: William Hilson, Joan Fallon, and Derrick Adams (photo by Christopher Garcia Valle)
Pratt Institute’s Board of Trustees has elected three new members in the last year artist and Pratt alumnus Derrick Adams, founder and CEO of Curemark Joan Fallon, and former Pratt faculty member William (Bill) Hilson.
Learn more about:
Derrick Adams
Derrick Adams’s appointment to Pratt Institute’s Board of Trustees was effective October 15, 2020.
Derrick Adams is a Baltimore-born artist whose work spans painting, collage, sculpture, performance, video, and sound installation. His multidisciplinary practice engages the ways in which individuals’ ideals, aspirations, and personae become attached to specific objects, colors, textures, symbols, and ideologies. His work probes the influence of popular culture on the formation of self-image and the relationship between man and monument as they coexist and embody one another. Adams also examines how African-American experiences intersect wi