Romare Bearden, a celebrated humanist and artist, was a man of many talents that included music, performing arts, history and literature. During the 1930’s, Bearden joined the Harlem Artists Guild and embarked on lifelong study of art, gaining inspiration from the Renaissance masters as well as early 20th C moderns and traditional African art. After his US Army service on the European front during WW II, Bearden returned to Paris to study art history and philosophy. As an artist, Bearden celebrated the African-American experience through a modernist lens. After working for several decades primarily as a painter, Bearden found his own unique artistic voice and began to create collages made of cut and torn photographs found in popular magazines and reassembled them into visual representations of African-American life. Please join us as we trace the life and artistic legacy of Romare Bearden who’s work mirrored, in a modernist sense, the African American community.