SC State to host artist talk and exhibition featuring master printmaker Winston Kennedy
on Tuesday, March 24
Author: Sam Watson, Executive Director of Strategic Communications & Marketing|Published: March 20, 2026|All News
Iemenja in Orangeburg County, SC by Winston Kennedy, 1990, woodcut, 24x30”, Collection
of Fine Art, Houston, Texas Dr. Frank MartinORANGEBURG, S.C. — South Carolina State University’s Visual Arts Program will host an artist talk with
master printmaker Winston Kennedy on Tuesday, March 24, 2026, from 4 to 6 p.m. in
the Fine Arts Building Atrium on the SC State campus.
Kennedy’s work is currently on display in the Fine Arts Building Gallery.
The event is part of the Art in Focus Colloquium Series, presented by the Visual Arts
Program in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts within the College of Education,
Humanities and Social Sciences.
During the program, Dr. Frank Martin will engage Kennedy in a conversation about the
artist’s work on view, exploring his creative practice and themes reflected in his
paintings, prints and photographs featured in the exhibition.
The event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be provided.
Winston KennedyAbout the artist
Winston Kennedy is a professor emeritus at Howard University, where he taught printmaking,
painting, drawing, art management, sculpture and photography for more than 29 years.
He previously served as chairman of the art department and director of the Gallery
of Art at Howard University, and later as chairman of the Department of Art and director
of the Arthur Rose Museum at Claflin University.
Kennedy has exhibited his work in galleries and museums across the United States,
South America and Europe. He has also lectured and written on African American printmakers,
including James Lesesne Wells and Dox Thrash, and contributed to “A Century of African
American Art: The Paul Jones Collection” (2004).
He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude, from North Carolina Central
University and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill.
Kennedy’s current work includes a series of woodcuts and paintings exploring the movement
of African people through the African diaspora, which he refers to as the “Ancestral
Stream.”
About the moderator
Frank Martin is a graduate of Yale University and holds a Master of Arts degree in
the history of art from Hunter College. He pursued additional study at New York University
and earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of South Carolina.
Before joining SC State, Martin worked with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New
York City and has contributed as a fine arts critic for The Post and Courier in Charleston.
Event details
Artist Talk with Master Printmaker Winston Kennedy
Tuesday, March 24, 2026 4-6 p.m. Fine Arts Buiding Atrium South Carolina State University
For more information, email the Visual Arts Program coordinator at kledee@scsu.edu.
