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. Register on Eventbrite
Traveling Bearden: How Exhibitions Expand Access
A Bearden collage does not behave like a JPEG. On a screen, the edges read clean. The paper reads flat. Scale looks consistent, even when it is not. In person, the work is more stubborn. It has seams. It has weight. It has decisions you can feel in your body,
Cinque Artists Talk Program: Jimmy James Greene
Wednesday, June 17, 2026, 6:00 – 7:00 pm – Virtual on Zoom Visual Storytelling and the Sacred Everyday A virtual conversation with visual artist, muralist, and educator, Jimmy James Greene. Join us for another edition of the Cinque Artists Talk series where we talk with contemporary artists. Register on Eventbrite
Bearden and the City: Harlem, Pittsburgh, and Beyond
Cities teach people how to see. They teach rhythm. They teach distance. They teach what counts as private, and what gets lived in public. Romare Bearden’s art carries that education. It carries it without postcards. It carries it without the tourist gaze. Two places matter most for this story: Harlem
In Bloom: What Bearden’s Gardens Teach Us About Memory, Renewal, and Living Legacy
Spring is often treated as a season of fresh starts, but in Romare Bearden’s work, renewal is rarely simple. It is not innocence. It is not erasure. It is not the fantasy of beginning again untouched by what came before. It is memory returning in color. Again and again, Bearden
The Archive as Living Memory: Inside the Foundation
Most people support the arts for what they can see. The painting on the wall. The collage under glass. That Bearden exhibition that fills a Saturday afternoon. The preservation work that makes those experiences possible rarely looks like art. It looks like boxes, folders, and a spreadsheet that refuses to
Cinque Artists Talk Program: Omo Misha and Tomo Mori
Wednesday, March 25, 2026, 6:00 – 7:00 pm – Virtual on Zoom Her Vision, Her Voice: Women Shaping Contemporary Practice with Omo Misha McGlown and Tomo Mori. Join us for another edition of the Cinque Artists Talk series Register on Eventbrite for a link to join the live Q &
Artists in Conversation: Bearden’s Legacy Today
The quickest way to flatten Romare Bearden is to call him “influential” and move on. The word gets used as a compliment, but it becomes a shortcut. It suggests a tidy lineage: Bearden invented a look, then later artists borrowed it. That is not what actually happened. Bearden’s afterlife runs
Bearden’s Harlem: A Living Map of Memory
In 1971, visitors who made it to the end of Romare Bearden’s retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art encountered something that still feels bracing. They stood in front of a long Harlem streetscape called The Block and they listened. Bearden had approved an accompanying “audio-tape collage,” commissioned by the
Cinque Artists Talk Program: Ademola Olugebefola
Thursday, February 26, 2026, 6:00 – 7:00 pm – Virtual on Zoom Building the Block: Ademola Olugebefola Join us for another edition of the Cinque Artists Talk series, with artist, Ademola Olugebefola. Register on Eventbrite for a link to join the live Q & A session. Free online. Register: https://bit.ly/3MzwMJD Coltrane’s
Artistic Mask Sale: Artist-Made Masks Supporting the Romare Bearden Foundation
After a sold-out CONJUR: A Masked Affair in New York City this fall, the Romare Bearden Foundation is thrilled to release a limited selection of one-of-a-kind, artist-made masks—available now as a special Mardi Gras sale. Every purchase supports the Foundation’s nonprofit programming. These masks are wearable artworks: bold, intimate, symbolic
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