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David Driskell & Jerome Meadows (Outside Security)
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On the Wings of a Dragon, 2005
BIOGRAPHY: David Driskell, Ph.D. Born 1931 in Eatonton, Georgia. Driskell received a BFA from Howard University in 1955 and an MFA from The Catholic University in 1962. Since 1977, Driskell has been a professor of art at the University of Maryland, College Park and is the recipient of 10 honorary doctoral degrees. Among his many accomplishments, Driskell has received the National Humanities Medal from President Clinton in December 2000 for his contributions to African-American art as an artist, curator, scholar and educator. He has exhibited at the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the Oakland Museum of Art; and many other museums around the nation. Driskell’s public art commissions include stained glass windows at Peoples Congregational Church, Washington, D.C. and DeForest Chapel at Talladega College, Alabama. He is represented by the DC Moore Gallery, New York, and the Sherry Washington Gallery, Detroit. Driskell’s art has been widely exhibited in Europe, Africa and South America.
BIOGRAPHY: Jerome Meadows, born 1951. Meadows received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1973 and an MFA from the University of Maryland in 1981. He is the recipient of two Fulbright Awards and has exhibited in numerous solo and group shows throughout the United States. Meadows’ work was included in the Moscow-Washington Art Exchange held at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow and was featured in a solo exhibition at the Alhamra Art Center in Lahore, Pakistan. In addition to exhibiting, teaching and numerous residencies, Meadows has designed and installed several large-scale public art works throughout the United States. He is the founder, director and principal designer of MeadowLark Studio, a design/build studio focusing on design and creation of art for public places. He divides his time between his production facilities in Savannah, Georgia and Washington, D.C.
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