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Atlanta: 2024 Driskell Prize Winner Noami Beckwith Celebrated at High Museum of Art Gala and Afterparty
2024 Driskell Prize Recipient Naomi Beckwith, deputy director and chief curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, N.Y. | Photo by Rafterman, Courtesy The High Museum of Art
Gala guests included High Museum of Art Director Randall Suffolk,
curator Valerie Cassel Oliver, photographer Tyler Mitchell, designer Sergio Hudson, artist Ebony G. Patterson, and gallerist Monique Meloche
curator Valerie Cassel Oliver, photographer Tyler Mitchell, designer Sergio Hudson, artist Ebony G. Patterson, and gallerist Monique Meloche
ATLANTA, GA., PLAYED HOST to the art world on April 26, when the High Museum of Art celebrated 2024 David C. Driskell Prize recipient Naomi Beckwith. The Driskell Prize recognizes exceptional contributions to the field of African American art. The 19th recipient of the prestigious honor, Beckwith is deputy director and chief curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.
Sunda and G. Scott Uzzell, Nike vice president and general manager for North America, chaired the Driskell Prize gala. The evening featured a seated dinner, remarks, and the annual event’s first-ever afterparty.
More then 250 guests attended the gala, according to the High Museum. Guests included High Museum Director Randall Suffolk; Raphael Bostic, president and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta; Camille Love, Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs; Phillana Williams, director, Mayor’s Office of Film & Entertainment; and Nickol Hackett, chief investment officer and treasurer, Joyce Foundation, Chicago, Ill.
Patrons mixed with artists and curators, Atlanta-born photographer Tyler Mitchell; Atlanta artists Charly Palmer and Fahamu Pecou; artist Genevieve Gaignard; and Lauren Haynes, head curator and vice president of arts and culture, Governors Island, New York, N.Y., among them. Previous recipients of the Driskell Prize were also in attendance, including Valerie Cassel Oliver (2011), curator of modern and contemporary art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Va.; Naima Keith (2017), vice president of education and public programming, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and artist Ebony G. Patterson (2023).
“…It’s wonderful always to be admired by peers or acknowledged by peers, whoever they may be in the field,” Beckwith said in a High Museum video made on the occasion of the Driskell Prize. “So you sit and you go to the dinners, and it’s all—it’s all quite lovely. But when you understand that your people see you, that is the biggest honor.”
Sergio Hudson designed Beckwith’s gown. The jewel-toned look with a long flowing, pleated skirt is featured in the designer’s recent Collection 12.
Proceeds from the gala benefited the David C. Driskell African American Art Acquisition Restricted and Endowment funds, the High Museum said, and over the years have helped add 52 works by African American artists to the museum’s collection. CT
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From left, Sunda Uzzell, Naomi Beckwith, and Scott Uzzell. The Uzzells chaired the 19th Annual David C. Driskell Prize Gala. | Photo by Rafterman, Courtesy The High Museum of Art
From left, 2024 Driskell Prize Recipient Naomi Beckwith and Randall Suffolk, director of the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Ga. | Photo by Rafterman, Courtesy The High Museum of Art
Kent Kelley and Tamara Kelley, members of host committee for the Driskell Prize Gala. Kent Kelley is a member of the High Museum of Art’s board of directors. | Photo by Rafterman, Courtesy The High Museum of Art
Charlene Crusoe-Ingram and Earnest Ingram, members of host committee for the Driskell Prize Gala. Crusoe-Ingram is nominating vice chair of the High Museum of Art’s board of directors. | Photo by Rafterman, Courtesy The High Museum of Art
From left, 2024 Driskell Prize Recipient Naomi Beckwith with hosts of the gala. From left, Nikki Crump, Sunda Uzzell, Naomi Beckwith, Charlene Crusoe-Ingram, Robyn Wallace, and Louise Sams. | Photo by Rafterman, Courtesy The High Museum of Art
Robyn and Zak Wallace, members of host committee for the Driskell Prize Gala. | Photo by Rafterman, Courtesy The High Museum of Art
Karen Comer-Lowe, curator in residence at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art; and Artist and chef Leslie Parks Bailey, wife of late artist Radcliffe Bailey and daughter of late artist Gordon Parks. | Photo by Rafterman, Courtesy The High Museum of Art
High Museum of Art Director Randall Suffolk and photographer Tyler Mitchell. “Tyler Mitchell: Idyllic Space” opens at the High Museum of Art on June 21. | Courtesy The High Museum of Art
Mike Jackson and Egypt Sherrod, stars of the Atlanta-based HGTV series “Married to Real Estate.” | Photo by Rafterman, Courtesy The High Museum of Art
2024 Driskell Prize Recipient Naomi Beckwith and Sergio Hudson, who designed Beckwith’s gala gown. | Photo by Rafterman, Courtesy The High Museum of Art
South Carolina-born, Sergio Hudson is based in Los Angeles. Hudson won Bravo TV’s “Styled to Rock” in 2013, established his eponymous label in 2014, relaunched it in 2016, and debuted at New York Fashion Week in 2020. His clothes are made in the USA. Hudson’s clients include many prominent figures in the music industry, Hollywood, and politics, including former First Lady Michell Obama, Vice President Kamala Harris, and First Lady Jill Biden, who wore a cobalt blue gown by Hudson to the White House State Dinner honoring Kenyan President William Ruto on May 23.
From left, Chicago gallerist Monique Meloche and 2023 Driskell Prize Recipient Ebony Patterson, who is represented by Monique Meloche. | Photo by Rafterman, Courtesy The High Museum of Art
From left, DJ Princess Cut and Killer Mike, aka Mike Render, High Museum of Art board member. DJ Princess Cut provided music for the Driskell Prize gala’s first-ever after party. | Photo by Rafterman, Courtesy The High Museum of Art
Photographer Tyler Mitchell and 2024 Driskell Prize Recipient Naomi Beckwith. | Photo by Rafterman, Courtesy The High Museum of Art
From left, 2011 Driskell Prize Recipient Valerie Cassel Oliver, curator of modern and contemporary art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and 2024 Driskell Prize Recipient Naomi Beckwith. Cassel Oliver and Beckwith co-curated the landmark traveling survey “Howardena Pindell: What Remains to Be Seen.” | Photo by Rafterman, Courtesy The High Museum of Art
2024 Driskell Prizer Recipient Naomi Beckwith making remarks at the gala. | Photo by Rafterman, Courtesy The High Museum of Art
2024 Driskell Prizer Recipient Naomi Beckwith, holding her award, with High Museum Director Randall Suffolk. | Photo by Rafterman, Courtesy The High Museum of Art
BOOKSHELF
Naomi Beckwith has published many volumes. Key among them, she co-authored the exhibition catalogs “Howardena Pindell: What Remains To Be Seen” and “Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Any Number of Preoccupations,” and co-edited “The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now.” Beckwith also edited the catalog for Duro Olowu’s MCA Chicago exhibition “Seeing Chicago” and co-edited the exhibition catalog “Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America (from Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter).” She has also contributed to several other volumes, including “Lorna Simpson: Revised & Expanded Edition” (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series) and “Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art.”
ATLANTA – A new study suggests Atlanta may not be as diverse as many people might expect — at least when compared with cities across the country.
What we know:
According to a new report from WalletHub, Atlanta ranked 78th out of 501 U.S. cities in an analysis measuring diversity across several categories. Researchers looked at five main factors including socioeconomic, cultural, economic, household and religious diversity.
Atlanta performed best in religious diversity, ranking 9th, and socioeconomic diversity, where it came in 45th. But the city placed 178th for cultural diversity and landed near the bottom — in the 400s — for both household diversity and economic diversity.
It’s worth noting the study focused only on the city of Atlanta and did not include the broader metro area, which could paint a different picture of the region’s diversity.
By the numbers:
Some other Georgia cities also appeared on the list. Sandy Springs ranked 38th, Roswell placed 57th, and Columbus came in at 103rd. Meanwhile, Johns Creek ranked 94th overall and finished 500th in income diversity, one of the lowest marks in that category.
Dig deeper:
The study found the most diverse cities in the country were Silver Spring, Maryland; Gaithersburg, Maryland; Arlington, Texas; Germantown, Maryland; and Houston, Texas. At the other end of the list were Bangor, Maine; Brattleboro, Vermont; North Platte, Nebraska; Keene, New Hampshire; and Rochester, Nebraska.
ATLANTA – One of the five city employees that the inspector general said was illegally held against her will is speaking out publicly.
Briana Jackson said she felt like she was in jail and was even told she could not go to the bathroom during the three-hour ordeal.
The employees were detained because a watershed official could not find her wallet. The city officials have been disciplined.
What they’re saying:
Jackson lost her job and said the incident has set her back financially.
Briana Jackson is a single mother who said her life was finally back on track when the city of Atlanta hired her for an apprenticeship. That was until one of her supervisor’s wallets disappeared.
“It hurt. It hurt. I cried so hard for days and nights behind that,” Jackson said. “They suspected me as being the new intern, as being a person who stole the wallet.”
Jackson said the false imprisonment she encountered at the City of Atlanta Watershed Department was not only wrong.
She said it robbed her of her confidence, and she believes it is why she was fired one week later.
What they’re saying:
Jackson took FOX 5 Atlanta back to April 2024 when Watershed Manager DeValory Donahue could not find her wallet.
“The next thing I know, everybody in the office is being rounded up and put into this conference room,” Jackson said. “We are asking what is going on, nobody’s telling us nothing.”
Jackson said she and the other employees felt intimidated, primarily because she didn’t know what was going on.
She said an Atlanta police officer guarded the door and even restroom privileges were temporarily suspended.
“An hour or two passed by, we’re like, ‘Can we go to the restroom?’ The officer goes off, and he’s like, ‘I’ll ask somebody’ and I’m like, ‘Why do you have to ask somebody if we can go to the restroom?’” she recalled. “I’m actually scared.”
“I was the last person in the room, and I was sitting in that room for three hours,” she explained. “They were searching through my things without my consent.”
“I just felt like I was in jail. I didn’t know what to do really,” she added.
Jackson, Senior Management Analyst Charles Hobbs and three others were subjected to what Inspector General LaDawn Blackett concluded was an abuse of power and false imprisonment.
Dig deeper:
Following the IG investigation, the city told FOX 5 Atlanta, Atlanta Watershed Management Deputy Commissioner Yolanda Broome, who was promoted after this incident, received a warning and mandatory training.
Watershed Manager II DeValory Donahue received a warning and mandatory training, and Director of Safety and Security Sterling Graham received a warning and mandatory training.
Three senior investigators got written reprimands and mandatory training, but Jackson said she lost her life-changing opportunity with the city of Atlanta and would like to get her job back.
“I feel like I was really bullied in that situation and nobody told me about this case that was happening,” Jackson said. “I was trying to change a lot for my daughter, get a house and things like that. At that apprenticeship, I was making $900 a week. It was just taken away from me like that.”
“Nobody even called me for a second chance to come back to work at the city of Atlanta. It is like they kicked me to the side, and nobody even cared,” she said.
What’s next:
The city confirmed that the governing board for the Office of Inspector General is scheduled to take up this issue on March 17 at City Hall.
The Source: Brianna Jackson spoke with FOX 5’s Aungelique Proctor for this story. Previous FOX 5 Atlanta reporting was also used sourcing an investigation by Atlanta Inspector General LaDawn Blackett and other city officials.
Watch dance, listen to music, eat and enjoy Irish contributions to American life.
Atlanta Irish Dance performers will appear at several locations on St. Patrick’s Day, including Marlay House Irish Pub in Decatur and Glover Park Brewery in Marietta. (Courtesy of Atlanta Irish Dance)
By Felicia Feaster – For the AJC
2 hours ago
Sure, you could spend your St. Patrick’s Day drinking Guinness and Jameson and spend the next day feeling like a torn stocking. But this St. Patrick’s Day in Atlanta, there are a number of other ways to celebrate on the days leading up to, and on, the March 17 holiday with Irish music and dance, authentic stews and puddings, an Irish-accented cemetery stroll and even a charitable event in the mix.
Enjoy a beverage and Irish dancing
Atlanta Irish Dance performers participate in the Atlanta St. Patrick’s Day parade the Saturday before St. Patrick’s Day. But dancers will also get their jig on at several locations on St. Patrick’s Day, Atlanta Irish Dance co-founder Emma Burke said, including area retirement homes, Marlay House Irish Pub in Decatur and Glover Park Brewery in Marietta.
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Play golf in the Shamrock Scramble
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Watch wrestling at an Irish pub
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Experience a day of Irish music
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Visitors to historic Oakland Cemetery can check out the Hibernian Benevolent Society area to appreciate the history of Irish people in Atlanta. (Arvin Temkar / AJC)
Visit notable Irish Atlantans at Oakland Cemetery
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Watch the Atlanta St. Patrick’s Parade
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Murphy’s owners Matt McCarthy, executive chef, and his father, Gregg, former chef at the restaurant. The Virginia Highland eatery will serve authentic Irish favorites on St. Paddy’s Day. (Natrice Miller/ AJC)
Enjoy an Irish family meal
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St. Baldrick’s at Fadó Irish Pub — Buckhead
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