Porter Award for Excellence in African American Art Scholarship from Howard University, where he earned an MFA in printmaking in 1977.
He was awarded Yale’s Wilbur Cross Medal for Distinguished Alumni in 2009 three years later he received the James A. Powell earned a PhD in art history at Yale University in 1988, after receiving an MA in Afro-American studies in 1982 from the same school. Fleischman Award for Scholarly Excellence upon Powell for his contributions to the field of American art history.
In 2013, the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art bestowed the Lawrence A. He currently is dean of the humanities for the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences at Duke. Powell was chair of the school’s Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies from 1996 to 2001. A specialist in American art, African American art, and theories of race and representation, Powell will be honored in February during a special session at CAA’s upcoming Annual Conference in Washington, DC. Powell, John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art and Art History at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, where he has taught since 1989, has been named CAA’s 2016 Distinguished Scholar. Powell, John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art and Art History at Duke University
0 kommentar(er)
