Narratives of African American Art and Identity

A series of public events sponsored by the Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies and CAST, the Center Alliance for Secondary School Teachers and Texts, at the University of Maryland, College Park, in conjunction with the exhibition, Narratives of African American Art and Identity: The David C. Driskell Collection

Thursday, November 12, 1998 The Harlem Renaissance in Literature, Theater, and Music
  8:45 a.m. Registration, Grand Ballroom Lounge, Adele H. Stamp Student Union
  9:00 to 10:15 a.m. Barry Pearson, Folklore, Poetry and the Blues
  10:15 to 10:30 a.m. Coffee break
  10:30 to 11:45 a.m. Shirley Moody, Literature: Zora Neale Hurston
  11:45 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Lunch break
  1:00 to 2:15 p.m. Scott Reese, Drama: Langston Hughes
  2:30 to 3:45 p.m. Richard Wexler, Jazz: Duke Ellington
  3:45 to 4:30 p.m. Panel
Thursday, November 19, 1998 Exhibition Tour and Slide Presentation
  2:00 p.m.  Registration, Atrium, Art/Sociology Building
  2:30 p.m.  Exhibition Tour, The Art Gallery
  4:00 p.m.  David Driskell, Slide Presentation, 2203 Art/Sociology Building
  5:00 p.m.   Reception, Art/Sociology Building
Friday, December 4, 1998 Visits to online sources for African American Arts
  8:15 a.m.  Registration, AT&T Teaching Theater, Room 3140, Engineering Building
  8:30 to 10:30 a.m.  Adrienne Childs, Online Presentation
  10:30 to 12:00 noon   Lunch Break
  Noon to 2:00 p.m.  Artist Studio Tours
    Meet in Atrium, Art/Sociology Building. Participants will take chartered buses to studios of area artists represented in the exhibition. Buses will wait in Lot 1 behind the Art/Sociology Building.