What Stories Do Our Rooms Tell? A kitchen table, a worn armchair, the steady hum of conversation in a barbershop. These are not the traditional subjects of Western art history. Yet for Romare Bearden, they were essential. Bearden’s work transforms private, domestic Black life into a canvas worthy of profound

Piecing Together a New Reality What if the act of cutting and pasting images could challenge societal norms and reconstruct cultural identities?  For Romare Bearden, collage was not merely an artistic technique—it was a profound method of storytelling and a tool for social commentary. In an age fractured by displacement,