Romare Bearden Cinque Artist series at Harlem School of the Arts
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About this Event
**THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO THE CURRENT HEALTH CLIMATE**
Puttin’ on the Ritz: Fashion and the Harlem Renaissance: A conversation with Camara Holloway and Elizabeth Way
The Bearden Foundation’s Cinque Artists Program, is named for the Cinque Gallery founded by Bearden, Norman Lewis and Ernest Crichlow in the late 60's. The gallery served as a catalyst for artist and curators of color to exhibit, but also as a place for networking and building community.
Harlem during the Jazz Age was renown for the style of its denizens. The twenties was a time of radical transformation for clothing, and Harlem was at the cutting edge of new trends, influencing mainstream fashion and culture in unprecedented ways. This conversation will examine what people wore during the Harlem Renaissance and beyond, from flapper dresses to Zoot suits. The style of fashionable Harlemites has had a lasting influence on fashion and is still felt today.
Tuesday March 24, 2020
6:00 pm-8:00 pm
HSA Theater
Free and open to the public. Seating is limited.
About the participants:
Camara Holloway is an art historian who earned her PhD from Yale University. She serves as the Co-Director of the Association for Critical Race Art History (ACRAH) and has previously taught at University of Southern California and University of Delaware. She is the curator of Portraiture and the Harlem Renaissance: The Photographs of James L. Allen (1999)
Elizabeth Way is Assistant Curator of Costume at The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology. She curated the exhibitions, Global Fashion Capitals (2015), Black Fashion Designers (2016), Fabric In Fashion (2018), and the upcoming exhibition, Head to Toe (May 2020). Her personal research focuses on the intersection of African American culture and fashion.
ABOUT ROMARE BEARDEN FOUNDATION
The Romare Bearden Foundation is a non-profit organization, and one of the oldest of its kind established for an African American visual artist. The Foundation promotes Bearden’s legacy by serving as a catalyst to encourage creative expression and innovation, high quality exhibitions, scholarly publications and forums, as well as opportunities for artists to develop their craft. For over twenty-five years its mission has been to preserve and perpetuate the artist’s rich legacy for future generations. www.beardenfoundation.org
*This program is part of the "Harlem Renaissance 100"- A cultural collaborative, city wide celebration #HarlemRen100 http://harlemrenaissance.org
PHOTO by Public Domain
