Leslie King Hammond, Ph.D. - The Fifteenth Annual David C. Driskell Distinguished Lecture In The Visual Arts Series

Announcing the Fifteenth Annual David C. Driskell Lecture in the Visual Arts

Dr. Leslie King Hammond is the Graduate Dean Emerita and Founding Director of the Center for Race and Culture at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore. She is also the chair of the board of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of African American History and Culture, and an internationally recognized artist, curator, author, and scholar. She is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, and was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Alain Locke International Prize from the Detroit Institute of Arts. She is a frequent presenter on arts and culture. Her most recent exhibitions include the highly acclaimed “Global Africa Project” and “Ashe to Amen: African Americans and Biblical Imagery.”