Our former alumnus, Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient and Floyd Coleman Keynote Lecturer, 30th Annual Colloquium Howard University, Washington, DC.
William T. Williams in 2018 with It’s the Time of the Mind in the Middle of the Day, 1970 at Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; Photographer Grant Delin
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery
is proud to announce that William T. Williams (b.1942) will be honored this
evening, Saturday, April 6, 2019, with the Lifetime Achievement Award at
the 30th Annual James A. Porter Colloquium. The award will be presented by
Tuliza Fleming, Curator of American Art at the Smithsonian National Museum of
African American History and Culture, at a gala reception at the Armour J.
Blackburn University Center. Selected in recognition of
his “inestimable advancement of contemporary painting practice and
pioneering cultural work in the early development of the Studio Museum in
Harlem,” the artist will receive the award alongside Anthony
Barboza and Sylvia Snowde.
Williams joins a distinguished list of past honorees including noted artists and
art historians Dawoud Bey, Tritobia Hayes Benjamin, Andrea Barnwell Brownlee,
Elizabeth Catlett, Floyd Coleman, Alonzo Davis, David C. Driskell, Richard
Hunt, Leslie King-Hammond, Samella Lewis, Valerie Maynard, Richard J. Powell,
Faith Ringgold, Lowery Stokes Sims, Robert Farris Thompson, Deborah Willis,
Fred Wilson, and Judith Wilson. The artist was also selected to
present the annual Floyd Coleman Keynote Lecture, which took place on Day
One of the three-day scholarly program.
About The James
A. Porter Colloquium
The James A. Porter Colloquium is the leading forum for scholars, artists,
curators, and individuals in the field of African American Art and Visual
Culture. Established at Howard University in 1990, the colloquium is named in
honor of James A. Porter, the pioneering art historian and professor, whose
1943 publication, Modern
Negro Art, laid the foundation for the field of study. The annual
colloquium continues his legacy through dynamic programming, scholarly
research, and artistic leadership.
Previous presenters have included such leading scholars and artists as
Johnetta Coles, Huey Copeland, Okwui Enwezor, Jacqueline Francis, Ann Gibson,
Sam Gilliam, Kellie Jones, Sarah Lewis, Richard Long, Kobena Mercer, Sharon F.
Patton, Franklin Sirmans, and Alvia J. Wardlaw. This year’s presentation of the
Howard University Department of Art’s James A. Porter Colloquium is presented
in conjunction with The David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual
Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora and the Howard
University Gallery of Art.
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC is the exclusive representative of William T.
Williams (b.1942).
Learn more about William T. Williams.
Michael Rosenfeld
Gallery
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery specializes in 20/21 century art. Established in 1989
by Michael Rosenfeld, the gallery opened its doors to promote the breadth of
American art and those artists—known or unknown—that contributed to the
establishment of surrealism, social realism, abstract expressionism, figurative
expressionism and geometric abstraction. Michael Rosenfeld Gallery is located
at 100 Eleventh Avenue, New York, NY, 10011. Gallery hours are Tuesday through
Saturday, 10:00AM–6:00PM.
