“In 1951 I took my first art course. And one day I looked over my shoulder and there was this tall gentleman standing, very well-dressed and groomed, and he asked, "What is your name? I don't know you. What is your major?" I said history. And he looked at my drawing and looked at me and said, "You don't belong over there; you belong here." He was James A. Porter.” KnowsFirstsWellsArtSaidCoursesNamesOne DayMajorsStandingDrawingShouldersGentlemanTallWell Dressed Author:David C. Driskell
“I hadn't had any course work in ceramics. I had no courses in art education but I wasn't going to let this chance to have a job pass me by. I went out and learned and I stayed one step ahead of the students by reading and I got to be pretty proficient at throwing on the wheel and making my own glazes, ordering the chemicals and having the students go out and dig and process their clay, and doing things that they weren't teaching at Howard University. So Talladega College opened up my whole sensibility about experimental teaching.” ArtWholeJobsCoursesReadingProcessChanceMy OwnStepsTeachingStudentsCollegeUniversityWheelsChemicalsThrowingSensibilityClayArt EducationCeramics Author:David C. Driskell
“Mary O'Neal used to say that I was teaching her course in disguise, as she said "in cultural disguise." What she meant was that this really was a very fervent kind of civil rights art course, not altogether art history. It wasn't altogether theory. She called it an action course.” KindArtSaidActionUsedCoursesRightsTeachingTheoryCivil RightsMaryDisguiseArt HistoryFervent Author:David C. Driskell
