Guests joined the NYU Center for Black Visual Culture at IAAA and SoHarlem to remember two great artists, David C. Driskell & Freddy Rodriguez. Their lives and work were celebrated by our esteemed guest speakers, Dr. Pamela Newkirk and Dr. Alejandro Anreus.   Author, award-winning journalist, and professor Pamela Newkirk, PhD, is a multifaceted scholar who has published a variety of works that present multidimensional portraits of African American life, and address the historical exclusion of African descendants in scholarship and popular culture. Dr. Newkirk will pay tribute to David C. Driskell (1931-2020), one of the world’s foremost scholars of Black art. Born to sharecroppers from Eatonton, Georgia, and the Appalachian mountains of North Carolina, Driskell became a celebrated artist, curator, collector, teacher, scholar, and mentor over a career spanning seven decades. Driskell believed in the importance of telling the stories of African American artists, and approached Dr. Newkirk with the idea...