Shifting explores how African American female artists turn their gaze on themselves and on other women. Not attempting to provide one answer, this exhibition serves as a platform for creating a dialogue around the questions: Whose gaze is it? Is the male gaze also the female gaze? Are women looking at themselves through the male gaze?

David C. Driskell Center
1214 Cole Student Activities Bldg.
University of Maryland,
College Park, MD 20742
(301) 314-2615  driskellcenter@umd.edu

Monday – Friday  11 AM – 4 PM with extended hours on Wednesday until 6 PM
The Driskell Center Gallery will additionally be open on Saturday, Mar. 11^th, Apr. 29^th, & May 13^th
from 11 AM – 4 PM

Main, Library, and Resident Artist Galleries

 “Shout For Joy”: African American Sacred Music Traditions

The 2017 Black History Month exhibition examines the development of sacred music within the African-American community. Through the stories behind the creation of spirituals, hymns, and gospel music, this exhibit uncovers the tremendous importance of sacred music in the black community beginning in West Africa and extending to the 21st century. Simultaneously, the exhibit highlights the important contributions made by Prince Georgians in the realm of black sacred music as vocalists, instrumentalists, composers, and more.