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
Romare Bearden featured at Art Fair
Art Basel Miami Beach -December 6-9, 2018 This year at Art Basel Miami Beach the DC Moore Gallery features a selection of Bearden's lesser known abstract works, and a few favorites from his Mecklenberg series. The Gallery presentation also features works by Charles Burchfield, David Driskell, Jacob Lawrence, and George
CELEBRATION OF NEW BOOK ON BEARDEN – An American Odyssey: The Life and Work of Romare Bearden
We are celebrating “An American Odyssey: The Life and Work of Romare Bearden” by Mary Schmidt Campbell. Meet the author and join us for a special conversation at the DC Moore Gallery, NY Friday November 16 Book signing 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm 7:30 pm – Conversation Mary Schmidt Campbell,
CINQUE ARTIST PROGRAM AT THE HARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: ARTIST TALK WITH CARLOS JESUS MARTINEZ DOMINGUEZ
Tuesday, April 17, 2017 6:00 pm-8:00 pm visual artist Carlos Jesus Martinez Dominguez will present his multimedia work and thoughts on the Caribbean, its diaspora, NYC, Hip Hop, Latinidad, religion and other intersecting points. Also included will be a conversation between Carlos and Pepe Coronado, of the Coronado Print Studio
Romare Bearden: Abstraction Exhibition at Neuberger Museum of Art
“Romare Bearden: Abstraction” featured lesser-known abstract paintings created by Bearden in the late 1950’s and 1960’s. From the website: “Very little attention has been paid to the body of work that immediately preceded those well-known works—extraordinary and fully abstract watercolors, mixed media collages, and stain paintings, sometimes as small as
St. Louis Art Museum Fellowship
The Foundation has worked with the St. Louis Art Museum for the past three years to host Romare Bearden Fellows in New York. The St. Louis Art Museum (SLAM) Post Graduate Minority Fellowship was started in 1992 with the objective to cultivate future museum professionals from historically underrepresented groups or
Our Fundraisers
Romare Bearden: A New OdysseyOn April 10th, 2014 the Foundation hosted a fundraiser to benefit their educational programs. “Romare Bearden: A New Odyssey” was held at The Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers. The evening kicked off with a silent auction including artworks from nationally known artists Richard Hunt and Danny Simmons.
The Romare Bearden Park is now Open!
The Foundation had the opportunity to consult on the development of permanent signage for one of the biggest projects ever to celebrate a visual artist. Bearden’s hometown of Charlotte North Carolina celebrated his life by building a park in his name and spirit. The park design is based on Bearden’s
Romare Bearden Centennial Tribute
From September 2011 through September 2012, the Bearden Foundation will celebrate the 100th Birthday of Romare Bearden, a 20th Century American master of the visual arts, and an innovator in the use of collage as a means of personal reflection and social commentary. While Bearden is an internationally recognized figure,
Homecoming Celebration
From September 2004 to March 2005, a well-attended Close-Out program at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture on March 15, 2005, hosted by the actor and Bearden collector, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, marked the close of the Romare Bearden Homecoming Celebration, a seven-month long, very successful, high-visibility project that was conceived