by Jon Lackman | 2 April 2010 | Americas, Conferences, Modern
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette wrote this in advance of last weekend’s Romare Bearden symposium:
Artist Romare Bearden … is the subject of a symposium … at the August Wilson Center for African American Culture, Downtown. “Bearden in the Public Realm,” include[s] a Friday conversation with novelist John Edgar Wideman … Saturday’s keynote speaker will be Mary Schmidt-Campbell, who was recently named vice chairman of President Obama’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities … Among the goals of this symposium are to draw attention to and discover more about the breadth of disciplines Mr. Bearden engaged with and influenced. His collage painting, “The Piano Lesson,” for example, was the inspiration for August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same title … More than 22 national artists and scholars will participate in six panels ranging in topic from “Pittsburgh Memories” to “Printmaking as Practice.”
