Bearden in the Public Realm symposium
Posted on | March 8, 2010 | No Comments
“Bearden in the Public Realm”
March 26-27, 2010
at the August Wilson Center for African American Culture
980 Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh
This event is free and open to the public.
Romare Bearden, Childhood Memories, 1964
The symposium’s subject is Romare Bearden (1911-1988), a cosmopolitan modernist who spent part of his childhood in Pittsburgh, and later interpreted its rich cultural history in expressive collage, mixed media work, murals, and graphic art.
Please announce the symposium to your students, staff, and colleagues. It will be an exciting program featuring:
* talks on Bearden’s groundbreaking art and its representations of African-American and African Diaspora culture.
* an interview with Pittsburgh-born novelist John Edgar Wideman, whose most recent work is Fanon is a vibrant engagement with the post-colonial thinker’s legacy.
* jazz performance by the Alton Merrell Trio.
* a keynote address by art historian and Bearden scholar, Dr. Mary Schmidt Campbell, Dean of the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU.
Please see the schedule for the free symposium “Bearden in the Public Realm” at: http://www.beardenfoundation.org/news.shtml#news_one
Tags: Alton Merrell Trio > August Wilson Center for African American Culture > John Edgar Wideman > Mary Schmidt Campbell > Romare Bearden
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