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Michael D. Harris (blacked out area)
October 8, 1987
David Driskell (blacked out area)
Dear David,
I hope this letter finds you in good health and spirits, and I know you are as productive as ever evidence by the exhibition on the Harlem Renaissance you curated at the Studio Museum recently.
It seemed a good idea to drop you a line to update you about my comings and goings. I am in the same program at Yale that Rick Powell began several years ago. This, of course, has the effect of slowing art production tremendously, but the new information and ideas are expanding the parameters of future possibilities. I also hope to do some work in onnecting ancient black Egyptian culture to the cosmology and expression of later West African peoples confirming a continuity. Piece of cake!
The current plan is for my daughters to spend the summer with me and I wondered if you will be painting in Maine this coming summer? I would like to take them up there, and thought maybe we could pass by your studio if you aren't TOO far north.
Regardless, have a pleasant year.
Thanks,
Michael Harris