Curator Adrienne L. Childs Wins High Museum’s $50,000 Driskell Prize

Adrienne C. Childs, an art historian who serves as the adjunct curator of the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., is the winner of this year’s David C. Driskell Prize, an annual award for individuals in the art world who push African American art and art history in new directions that comes with a $50,000 purse.
Childs has been celebrated for her work on Black artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, including the acclaimed 2020 exhibition “Riffs and Relations: African American A