Now on display at The Trout Gallery, The Legacy of Two Centuries of Black American Art celebrates the legacy of David Driskell’s groundbreaking 1976 exhibition Two Centuries of Black American Art, which provided audiences with a remarkably comprehensive survey of significant works, broke cultural barriers, and had an enduring impact on generations of artists. Featured artists include Margaret Burroughs, Elizabeth Catlett, Allan Rohan Crite, Jacob Lawrence, Romare Bearden, Hale Woodruff, Alma Thomas, William Henry Johnson, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Dox Thrash, and Clementine Hunter, among others. The exhibition will not be a reconstruction of Driskell’s Two Centuries, but rather will celebrate Driskell’s championing of Black art, history, and culture.
On Nov. 9, The Trout will host a symposium with presentations by Curlee Raven Holton, artist, scholar and founding director of Raven Fine Art Editions; Adrienne Childs, independent scholar, art historian and senior consulting curator at The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; and Julie McGee, associate professor of Africana studies and art history, University of Delaware. The symposium will be moderated by Jerry Philogene, associate professor of Black studies at Middlebury College.