Cinque Artists Talk Program: Lorenzo Pace

Wednesday, July 15, 2026, 6:00 – 7:00 pm – Virtual on Zoom

Keeping Pace: The Art of Lorenzo Pace

A virtual conversation with multimedia artist, sculptor, and author, Lorenzo Pace

Join us for another edition of the Cinque Artists Talk series where we talk with contemporary artists.

Free online. Register: http://bit.ly/3QAJUAq

The Romare Bearden Foundation presents Keeping Pace, The Art of Lorenzo Pace, a virtual conversation moderated by art historian Lisa Farrington.

In 1993, Pace was commissioned to build a monument at New York City’s Foley Square paying homage to the African slaves originally buried on that site. His work resulted in a 300-ton granite sculpture named “Triumph of the Human Spirit.” The artist is also author of four children’s books, including Jalani and the Lock, chosen as a “Best Book” by the Los Angeles Times.

About the artist

Dr. Lorenzo Pace is an artist, author, lecturer, master storyteller and performance artist. His works cover a broad range of objects and materials – sculptures, installations and performance art. The artist has received international acclaim and exhibited in galleries and museums all over the world, including New York City galleries, the National Civil Rights Institute in Birmingham, AL, as well as galleries in China, Brazil, Senegal, Suriname, Peru, and France.

Other books by Pace are Marching with Martin, Harriet Tubman and My Grandmother’s Quilts, and Frederick Douglass and the North Star, published this year. Pace is known around the world as a master storyteller and performance artist. His book performances are full of music, singing, dancing, joy, and laughter and provide an experience unlike anything most people have ever seen with an author. Audiences of all ages, backgrounds, and dispositions are compelled by Pace’s magnetic personality, exuberance, and storytelling talents to participate in his magical journeys through words and images. They leave breathless, smiling, and full of gratitude. Pace has served as Director of the Montclair State University (New Jersey) Art Gallery, is currently Professor of Art at the University of Texas – Rio Grande, and maintains a studio in Brooklyn, New York.

The artist will be in conversation with art historian, Lisa Farrington.

Dr. Lisa Farrington is an award-winning leader in the field of African American art history. She is Distinguished Professor Emerita at CUNY and served as Associate Dean of Fine Arts at Howard University. Farrington won the Andy Warhol Foundation / Creative Capital Arts Writers Prize, the Spelman College / Atlanta University Endowed Chair in the Humanities, three national awards for her Oxford University Press book on the history of African American women artists, and the coveted Kirkus Star Review for her 2025 University of California book Black Artists in Their Own Words.

Tune in Wednesday, July 15, 2026, at 6:00 p.m. (EDT)

The Romare Bearden Foundation is a not-for-profit organization that perpetuates the artistic and intellectual legacy of the 20th-century master of visual art.

The Artist Talk series is part of the Cinque Artist Program, named after the Cinque Gallery, founded by artists Romare Bearden, Norman Lewis, and Ernest Crichlow in the late 1960s. The gallery served as a catalyst for artists and curators of color to exhibit, but also as a place for networking and building community. Our series provides a platform for visual artists to showcase their work, and promotes presentations from professionals on practical information for artists and the general public. We encourage adult artists, students, and enthusiasts to share in discussions in an intimate setting.

The Cinque Artists Program is supported, in part, with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

The Bearden Foundation’s programs and activities are made possible, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

The Mellon Foundation, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, and other foundations, corporations, and individual donors generously provide additional support.

The Romare Bearden Foundation is a participant of the Harlem Cultural Collaborative of Harlem One Stop