MS01.01.01 - Box 01 - Folder 05 - General Correspondence, 1973 January - February

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How's Maine for the main man. commercial but truthful, Has the snow truthful to the experience left the leaves I see around me. His turning towards the painting[s] are not abstract sky to great sunny to me but are intimate days or R you realism. wiping rain from He brought some yo brow as u turn slides w/ him from the brothers on to India. He spent a where black is at. month there. A lot Kenneth Young just of people had very left, he's quite an dark skin, pyramid interesting dude. His moves & broad lips. They painting look like looked just like us only what time it is. w/ straight hair. They By this I mean are very earthy people. they relate to our The way the brown people in color & soil moves into brown style. They relate legs to earthy but to our shineing [shiny] cadillac colorful clothes to cars, superfly, jazz bangles of brass that musik, motown. They reflect a well defined look like a background & not so interrupted to walk in front when culture. He also said we wear our Chartreuse their music is walking suits. In this some what like since they feel commercial, African music. The but only in so far as sitar in considered their ablity to relate classical and is not to the things I see the music of the us identify w/. villagers this come to So they are not me as a surprise

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Because when this media gives us India they give us yogis & Ravi Shankar. Another interesting things was the way their fabric decor reflected their architecture and the repetition of line looked kind of African. Carlton Moss has come & gone. This film going to be a gas. Will stay in touch.

Peace, Progress, Power As Salaam Alaikum Om Shanti Om

[SIGNED] Johnny the mighty.

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Dear Mr. Driskell.

As a member of the Vanderbilt Woman's Club program committee for next year, I am wondering if perhaps you might be willing to speak to this group at its April meeting. (1974). My suggestion to the committee of this possibility was met with enormous enthusiasm, following as it did upon Clara Hieronymus' good article in the "Tennessean" on your assignment

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with the US Department of State. The emphasis of your talk could be of your own choosing. I am certain that your experiences and travels in Africa an Europe would be of great interest to all as would your research on AfroAmerican art -- We shall leave this up to you

The Vanderbilt Woman's Club will meet in Branscome 6 Quadrangle on Thursday, April 18, next spring. After a brief interval for coffee, the program is meant to begin at 10:30. The speaker may have anywhere from thirty to fifty

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minutes -- We would be delighted if you would like to show slides. and I think most of the necessary equipment is there. If you should have any small artifacts to bring with you, these too might be an effective additon.

Although I realize that it is never easy to contemplate one's agenda this far ahead, it would be a great pleasure for us all if you could "share your sabbatical" with us next April. I shall look forward to hearing from you --

Haw joins me w sending

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