David C. Driskell's Education and Teaching Positions

EDUCATION

Study Certificate in Art History, Rijksbureau voor
          Netherlands, 1964

M.F.A., The Catholic University of America,
          Washington, D.C., 1962

B.A. in Fine Arts, Howard University, Washington,
          D.C., 1955

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture,
          Skowhegan, Maine, 1953 

Public Schools of North Carolina, 1937-1949

           

EMPLOYMENT

Professor of Art, University of Maryland, College
          Park, 1977 - 1998, Emeritus 1998 (serving as Professor and Chairman,
          Department of Art, 1978-1983)

Professor of Art and Chairman, Dept. of Art, Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, 1966- 1977

Associate Professor of Art, Howard University, Washington, D.C., 1962-1966

Assistant Professor of Art, Talladega College, Talladega, Alabama, 1955-1962

 

HONORS

American Academy of Arts and Science, 2018

Lifetime Legacy Award from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, 2016

National Academician at the National Academy, 2007

David C. Driskell Prize at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia, 2005 (the first
          national award to honor and celebrate contributions to the field of African
          American art and art history)

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,
           founded October, 2001

National Humanities Medal, presented by President William Jefferson Clinton, 2000

Distinguished University Professor of Art, University of Maryland, 1995

Doctor of Fine Arts (D) and Humane Letters (H):                                                                 

Institute of Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, Portland, Maine, 2009 (D)

Colby College, Waterville, Maine, 2000 (D)

Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, 1997 (H)

Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine, 1996 (D)

CCNY, Baruch College, New York City, New York, 1994 (D)

Talladega College, Talladega, Alabama, 1993 (H)

Rust College, Holly Springs, Mississippi, 1991 (H)

Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, 1989 (D)                                   

SUNY, College at Old Westbury, Old Westbury, New York 1989 (D)    

Tougaloo College, Jackson, Mississippi, 1977 (D)

Daniel Payne College, Birmingham, Alabama 1977 (H)         

           

ADJUNCT EDUCATIONAL EMPLOYMENT (selected list)

Visiting Artist, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine, 2004

Visiting Artist, The Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine, Summer, 2001 & 1992

Distinguished Visiting Lecturer, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Spring, 1990

Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Queens College, CCNY, Flushing, New York, Spring semester, 1989

Distinguished Visiting UNCF Scholar, Talladega College, Talladega, Alabama, Spring semester, 1987

Resident Artist, The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine, Summer, 1978

Visiting Artist, The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine, 1976

Guest Curator, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1975-1977

Adjunct Professor, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, 1975-1976

Visiting Artist, The Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine, Summer, 1975

Visiting Professor of Art, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, Spring semester, 1973

Visiting Professor of Art, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, Spring semester, 1973

Guest Curator, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1972

Visiting Professor, Obafemi Awolowo University (University of Ife), Ile-Ife, Nigeria, 1970

Associate Director, Barnett Aden Gallery, 1962-1966

Acting Chairman and Director of the Gallery of Art, Howard University, Washington, D.C., 1963-1964 and 1965-1966