Artist Award Roundup: Ebony G. Patterson Wins High Museum’s Driskell Prize
Ebony G. Patterson Wins High Museum’s Driskell Prize
The High Museum of Art in Atlanta has given its 2023 David C. Driskell Prize to artist Ebony G. Patterson, who is based in Chicago and Kingston, Jamaica. Named for the legendary art historian, curator, and artist who mounted the watershed exhibition “Two Centuries of Black American Art: 1750–1955” in 1976, the $50,000 prize goes to “an early- or midcareer scholar or artist whose work makes an original and significant contribution to the field of African American art or art history,” according to a release.
