Keith Anthony Morrison

with David Driskell, Porter Colloquium, Howard University, 2019

with William T. Williams, Porter Colloquium Honoree, Howard University, 2017

Keith Anthony Morrison's painting "A Night in Tunisia" is featured on the cover of French scholar Marc Mve Bekale's book "Senghorian Meditations: The Ontology of Afro-Diasporic Aesthetics" published in Paris by L'Harmattan Publishing. The author says "A Night in Tunisia" elucidates his concept for the book: "It builds on the theory worked out by the late Leopold Senghor (great poet and president of Senegal) to explain the meaning and the various expressions of African-Negro aesthetics and that of the 'black Atlantic.' The book covers traditional African music (starting with the 'pygmies' polyphony and percussive techniques), the migration and dissemination of African sensibilities in the Americas, the mutation of African sensibilities into various musical forms in contact with other cultures across the Americas, the relationship between the homiletic oratory of old times black preachers with the oratorical tradition of African griots, the vitalistic dimension of African and black diasporic music which mainly comes from the predominance of percussions and gives it an absolute kinetic quality (so much so that Zora Neal Hurston was to assert that "there is no black music without movement"), the influence of African traditional sculpture on modern and postmodern painting and sculpture."

Méditations senghoriennes Méditations senghoriennes : Cette étude fait découvrir la pensée esthétique de Senghor, pour en dégager les principaux paradigmes et montrer leurs ramifications à travers les Amériques, où ils ont favorisé la naissance d'un "monde créolisé", fait d'ancestralités complexes, de "généalogies kafkaïenne…

Keith Anthony Morrison's paintings are featuring on the cover and inside "African Diaspora in the Cultures of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States," a new anthology edited by Dr. Persephone Braham of the University of Delaware. The book is available at bookstores and Amazon as a hard cover and an ebook. http://www.amazon.com/African-Diaspora-Cultures-America-Caribbean/dp/1611495377/

Keith Anthony Morrison's "Zanzibar" is featured at the Smithsonian in the exhibition Conversations: African and African American Artworks in Dialogue. The exhibition, on view at the museum through Jan. 24, 2016, is a major part of the museum’s 50th anniversary, celebrating its unique history and contributions toward furthering meaningful dialogue between Africa and the African diaspora. More info: http://conversations.africa.si.edu/

ARC Magazine features Keith Anthony Morrison's 2004 watercolor Market III (Mercado III) in its report on the exhibition “FLOW: Economies of the Look and Creativity in Contemporary Art from the Caribbean.”

IDB presents FLOW: Economies of the Look and Creativity in Contemporary Art from the Caribbean The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) presents the exhibition "FLOW: Economies of the Look and Creativity in Contemporary Art from the Caribbean." This exhibit will be open to the public from June 9 to August 29, 2014 at the IDB Cultural Center Art Gallery in Washington, DC.

New oil-on-canvas painting from Keith Anthony Morrison, Echoes of Africa, 60" x 48".

Keith Anthony Morrison :: Echoes of Africa (2014) Homepage of Keith Anthony Morrison, an acclaimed painter, printmaker, curator, critic and arts educator

Photos from the 2013 Brandywine Workshop Lifetime Achievement Awards at their 40th year anniversary gala. The Brandywine Workshop is one of the most distinguished printmaking institutions in the U.S., inviting many of the best artists from all over the world to make lithographs. The Brandywine Workshop has made these awards about every five years. Previous recipients have included the great African-American artists Jacob Lawrence, Romare Bearden and Richard Hunt, and the internationally renowned photographer, Gordon Parks.

On May 18 Keith Morrison will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award, as artist-educator, from the Brandywine Workshop at their 40th Anniversary Year Celebration, to be held at the National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia. Also receiving the award will be Lowery Sims, former curator, Metropolitan Museum of Art and former director, Studio Museum of Harlem; and Leslie King-Hammond, author of many acclaimed art books, former chair of the Board, College Art Association of America, and former graduate dean at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Previous recipients of this award include Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, Sam Gilliam, Gordon Parks, Richard Hunt, and David Driskell. Image: Wild Kingdom, 2011, offset lithograph, 40" X 36"; created at Brandywine Workshop. See: http://www.keithmorrison.com/wildkingdomprint.html