Month: January 2011

Monday, March 14, 2011
4:30 p.m.
East Building Auditorium

Romare Bearden, American Modernist: An Introduction
Ruth Fine, curator of special projects in modern art, National Gallery of Art

Romare Bearden and the Art of the Grotesque
Mary Schmidt Campbell, dean, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

Please see announcement for complete program (PDF 470KB).

The publication Romare Bearden, American Modernist will be available in spring 2011 from Gallery Shops.

images.magnetmail.net/images/clients/NGart/attach/2011_01_03_CASVA_Lectures_PDF.pdf (Announcement PDF 470KB)
shop.nga.gov/nga/category.cgi?category=books-casva_publications (Gallery Shops)

Before going to NYU, Campbell was assistant curator at the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse; cofounder of the Community Folk Art Center, Syracuse; and executive director of the Studio Museum in Harlem (1977–1987). From 1987 to 1991 she served as New York City commissioner of cultural affairs. Campbell was NYU’s provost for the arts (2004–2007) and chair of the New York State Council on the Arts (2007–2009), and she currently serves as chair of Tisch School of the Arts Asia. In September 2009, Campbell was appointed by President Obama as vice chair of the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities.

Campbell is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and sits on the boards of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival, and the Harlem School of the Arts. She holds honorary degrees from the College of New Rochelle, Colgate University, the City University of New York, Pace University, Maryland Institute College of Art, and Swarthmore College.

For more information on CASVA, visit www.nga.gov/casva.