Save the Date: Romare Bearden, American Modernist

SAVE THE DATE   A program celebrating the publication Romare Bearden, American Modernist 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) Mary Schmidt Campbell has been dean of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University since 1991. She earned her BA in English literature from Swarthmore College and her MA in art history and PhD in humanities from Syracuse University. She is the co-editor of Artistic Citizenship: A Public Voice for the Arts (2006) and co-author of Memory and Metaphor: The Art of Romare Bearden, 1940–1987 (1991) and Harlem Renaissance: Art of Black America (1987). 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. No RSVP required. For more information on CASVA, visit www.nga.gov/casva.

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