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The center houses an extensive collection of artwork by a wide range of
African-American and Afro-diasporic artists. Driskell and his wife Thelma G. Driskell donated significant portions of their personal collections to the center, both before and upon David's death, including many works by Driskell
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David C. Driskell was an artist, art historian, educator, and art collector who was among the earliest proponents of the study of
African-American art as a distinct, formal academic discipline, and he was widely credited during his lifetime as one of the world's foremost experts on African-American
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Driskell Center also contains extensive archival collections from several artists, writers, and academics. Driskell donated his own complete artistic and academic archives to the center. Other individual archival collections include those of artist Faith Ringgold, art
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Driskell Center was founded in 2001 by UMD, three years after Driskell's retirement from the university. Driskell continued to support the center's collections, exhibitions, and research until his death in April 2020 in Washington, D.C. Curlee R. Holton, a longtime artistic colleague of
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Driskells' collections, several collections grouped by major donations and bequests, and acquisitions made by the Driskell Center.
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