Conference

New Critical Perspectives in African American Art History

University of Maryland

March 7-8, 2008

Sponsored by The David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora and the Department of Art History and Archaeology

New Critical Perspectives in African American Art History is a conference framed in relation to the landmark 1976 exhibition Two Centuries of Black American Art that redefined the parameters for the study of African American art. Now, more than thirty years later, scholars will reassess the field of African American art as it has evolved, shifted and grown in the last quarter of the 20^th century and into the present. Presenters from around the nation will address themes of cosmopolitanism, race and the black body, diasporic identities, reconsiderations of the canon, and more.

The conference will take place at the University of Maryland in College Park on Friday and Saturday, March 7 and 8, 2008. For more information please contact Renée Ater at rater@umd.edu or Adrienne Childs at alchilds@umd.edu To register please visit the David C. Driskell Center website at http://www.driskellcenter.umd.edu/conferences/index.php