Discussing a collector's gift

Atlanta art collector Paul Jones, center, who recently donated his extensive collection of African-American art to the University, speaks during a panel discussion about the collection April 9 in the Trabant University Center Theatre. ?

Also participating in the discussion are Belena Chapp, left, director of museums at UD, and Amalia Amaki, art historian, visiting professor in the Black American Studies Program and the Center for American Material Cultural Studies at UD and curator of the collection.

The collection, which was donated to UD on Feb. 14, has been described as one of the oldest, largest and most complete holdings of African-American art in the world.

Included in the 1,000 piece collection are works by such noted artists as Charles White, Herman "Kofi" Bailey, David Driskell, Elizabeth Catlett, Earl Hooks, Jacob Lawrence and Selma Burke, who created the image of Franklin Delano Roosevelt that appears on the dime.

Photo by ERIC CROSSAN