Bearden with Betty Blayton and Children’s Art Carnival students; “Romare Bearden: The Prevalence of Ritual” at the Studio Museum in Harlem, 1972; Romare Bearden Papers [ysqdockk], The Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc.
We hope you can join us for an exciting series running throughout May 2024 hosted by the Wildenstein Plattner Institute:
ENDURING LEGACY: Conversations on Romare Bearden
This event series features three speakers whose scholarship and practice engage with Bearden’s formulation of the visual world.
Curating Romare Bearden with Charlie Farrell
Wednesday May 8, 2024 at 1 pm
Charlie Farrell will discuss the exhibition Romare Bearden: Resonances at the Saint Louis Art Museum. The show features Bearden’s important collage, Summertime (1967), alongside other collage works from the Museum’s collection. The aim is to trace Bearden’s influence and relationships with other artists, grounding him in a continuum of Black creativity.
Situating the Projections with Anne Monahan
Wednesday May 15, 2024 at 1 pm
Anne Monahan will discuss her chapter on Bearden from her manuscript in progress, “A Usable Past”: Race, Figuration, and Politics in the 1960s. Her research on Bearden reconsiders his breakthrough Projections exhibition in 1964, exploring his turn to photomontage, how race factored into the works’ reception, and the impact of this work on a rising generation of artists of color.
Conceptualizing Black Joy with Kahlil Robert Irving
Wednesday May 22, 2024 at 1 pm
Kahlil Robert Irving will discuss his artistic practice, including the pieces that were included in the recent exhibition, In Common: New Approaches with Romare Bearden, held at the New School in New York City. The show featured the work of six contemporary artists alongside that of Bearden.
These conversations commemorate Bearden’s continuing impact thirty-six years after his passing. The insight of his work resonates with our present moment and contemporary questions of race in America. More information can be found on our website.
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