the associations that david driskell would have as a black man in america. what is it? red promise? jeffrey: color, form, surface, composition -- driskell was looking at artists like cezanne and rembrandt and constantly experimenting as a painter. his homage to romare honors the artist romare bearden and his work with collage. driskell then developed his own collage technique, seen in paintings like “upward bound” in 1980 and “flowing like a river” in 1996. driskell taught all his life: at talladega college, howard and fisk universities and, beginning in 1977, the university of maryland. which in 2001 established the david c. driskell center, dedicated to furthering scholarship in african american and african diaspora art and culture. he also had a longtime home and studio in falmouth, maine, where he continued to work on another great love: scenes from nature, especially, in a variety of forms, the pine tree. julie mcgee would often visit him there. >> there's something about the studio space that was a creative sanctuary for him, that provided -- for him. i would say i