Convergence: Jazz, Films, and the Visual Arts

Posted: 02/18/2013

Jazz Jazz 1990 Screen print 27 3/4" x 20"

Works by Joseph Holston were included in the exhibition Convergence: Jazz, Films, and the Visual Arts which opened at the David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland, and was be seen at the American Jazz Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, and the Bates College Museum of Art in Lewiston, Maine.

Convergence was curated by Dr. Robert E. Steele and Dorit Yaron, the Driskell Center’s former Executive Director and current Deputy Director respectively, together with Sonnie Joi Ruffin, Visiting Curator at the American Jazz Museum. The exhibition featured more than 65 works by innovative artists and filmmakers, mostly African American, whose works interact with jazz music and culture. Not only does Convergence seek to explore the connection between jazz and the visual arts, it also offers and opportunity to explore the intimate relationship between sound and image in African American culture.