Cinque Artists Program with Camara Holloway & Elizabeth Way

The Romare Bearden Foundation presents: “Putting' on the Ritz: Fashion and the Harlem Renaissance" The Virtual Visual Conversation with Camara Holloway & Elizabeth Way Tuesday, June 16, 2020 6:00 pm-7:30 pm   Free and open to the public on Zoom. Please register via Eventbrite HERE for the Zoom link to the

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Cinque Artists Program at the Harlem School of Arts: Adrienne Elise Tarver

Tuesday May 28, 2019   6:00 -8:00 pm FREE & OPEN to the public.    “Artist Talk with Adrienne Elise Tarver” In her work, multimedia artist Adrienne Elise Tarver asks, “If mythologies from an imperialistic past can so thoroughly permeate our present identities, can we re-configure the narrative to create new

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Talk: Romare Bearden as Art Activist

Reginald F. Lewis Museum -Saturday, January 12, 1:00 – 3:00pm Romare Bearden: Artist as Activist examines how an American artist agitated for change through the power of his art and writing. Join Diedra Harris-Kelley, Co-Director of the Romare Bearden Foundation, for a discussion on Romare Bearden’s role as an art

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Artist Talk with Deborah Jack

Tuesday, October 3, 2017 6:00 pm-8:00 pm Visual artist Deborah Jack will give a presentation on her video/sound installations, photography, paintings and text work.  In her work Deborah Jack explores trans-cultural existence, memory, the effects of colonialism and mythology through re-memory. After that the artist will be led in conversation

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“Spiral Odyssey” sculpture unveiled at the Romare Bearden Park

On September 23, 2017, the Foundation Co-Directors Johanne Bryant-Reid and Diedra Harris-Kelley participated in the unveiling of the Richard Hunt sculpture, “Spiral Odyssey” at the Romare Bearden Park in Charlotte, North Carolina. It was a full two days of events honoring the Chicago sculptor Richard Hunt and Romare Bearden, and

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Cinque Artists Program: Art Talk with Valerie Maynard

Art Talk with Valerie Maynard in conversation with C. Daniel Dawson as part of the exhibition, “Valerie Maynard: Artist in Print” on view March 10 to April 15, 2016. In celebration of Women’s History Month the works of multimedia artist Valerie Maynard is currently on exhibition at the LeRoy Neiman

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Morningside Lights: A Neighborhood Procession Celebrates Bearden’s Black Odyssey

Hundreds of people held aloft glowing lanterns honoring African American artist Romare Bearden during the third annual Morningside Lights procession. his year’s theme was “Odysseus on the A Train,” part of a yearlong celebration on campus of Bearden and his iconic 1977 collage series, “A Black Odyssey.”

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