Romare Bearden Foundation

Name: Romare Bearden Foundation
Address: New York, NY, US
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The Romare Bearden Foundation celebrates the legacy of one of America’s most important artists. Explore his innovative works, support emerging artists, and engage with educational programs. Join us in preserving and promoting Bearden's impact on art and culture.

09/29/2026

Have you made your plans to celebrate Peg Alston?

Harlem World Magazine is helping spread the word about CONJUR 2026: A Masked Affair, where we’ll honor Peg with our Patron of the Arts Award.

Join us October 29 at City Winery NYC for cocktails, dinner, dancing, and the chance to celebrate someone who has spent decades championing Black artists.

Your ticket helps sustain the Romare Bearden Foundation’s exhibitions, education programs, and artist talks throughout the year. Invite a friend and join the celebration.

Thursday, October 29 • 6–10 p.m.

Individual tickets, tables, sponsorships, and booklet ads available here: https://beardenfoundation.org/exhibitions/conjur-2026/

Limited tickets remain.

Read the Harlem World Magazine feature:
https://www.harlemworldmagazine.com/join-romare-bearden-foundations-conjur-2026/

09/25/2026

What will you discover behind the mask?

Artist-made masks are returning to CONJUR: A Masked Affair this fall. Again this year, artists are lending their creativity to masks that will become part of the evening’s benefit auction.

It’s one of our favorite parts of the Conjur experience: guests can see these original works up close, choose a favorite, place a bid—and perhaps take home a work of art at the end of the night.

Join us for an evening where art, community, celebration, and a little mystery come together in support of the Romare Bearden Foundation.

CONJUR: A Masked Affair
Thursday, October 29, 2026
6–10 PM

🎟 Tickets are available now: bit.ly/Conjur26

Come for the art. Leave with some.

09/23/2026

Five weeks from tonight, we step behind the mask.

On Thursday, October 29, the Romare Bearden Foundation brings together artists, collectors, cultural leaders, friends, and supporters for CONJUR: A Masked Affair—an evening celebrating the enduring legacy of Romare Bearden and the creative community that continues to grow around it.

If you’ve been thinking about joining us, now is the time to make your plans.

Your ticket is more than a seat in the room. It supports the Foundation’s work preserving Bearden’s legacy, advancing scholarship, creating opportunities for artists and emerging cultural professionals, and connecting new generations with his work.

📅 Thursday, October 29, 2026
🕕 6–10 PM
📍 City Winery, New York City

Five weeks to go. We hope you’ll be in the room.

Tickets: bit.ly/Conjur26 (Link in bio)

09/10/2026

How closely can you look at a work of art before it starts looking back?

For Daniella Statia, the 2025–2027 Romare Bearden Graduate Museum Fellow at the Saint Louis Art Museum, close looking is connected to a much larger set of questions: What do museums notice? What do they preserve? Who gets included in the story—and who remains outside the frame?

During a recent visit to the Romare Bearden Foundation in New York, Statia examined Bearden’s work at unusually close range while learning about condition reporting, preservation, digital asset management, and the often-invisible systems that make cultural memory accessible.

“I always approach work looking for what’s not there, who is being left out and for what reason,” she says.

Our latest blog follows Statia’s journey from studying art history and museum studies to learning the many “moving parts” of a major museum. She also reflects on Bearden not only as an innovative artist, but as an advocate, organizer, and institution-builder whose commitment to other artists continues to resonate today.

Read the full story: “Looking for What’s Missing: Daniella Statia on Museums, Access, and the Romare Bearden Fellowship.”

https://beardenfoundation.org/looking-for-whats-missing-daniella-statia-on-museums-access-and-the-romare-bearden-fellowship/

09/08/2026

What does jazz look like? Romare Bearden can show us.

September brings together two remarkable anniversaries: Romare Bearden was born on September 2, 1911, and September 23 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of John Coltrane.

Jazz was deeply embedded in Bearden’s life and art. Growing up in Harlem, he encountered a cultural world that included Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Ella Fitzgerald, the Savoy Ballroom, and the Apollo Theatre, above which he later maintained a studio for sixteen years.

But Bearden did more than depict musicians.

The structures of jazz became part of his visual language: rhythm, repetition, variation, call and response, and improvisation. Through collage, fragments from different sources could answer one another, shift meaning, and become something entirely new.

In celebration of John Coltrane at 100—and during Bearden’s own birthday month—we’re exploring a question at the heart of Bearden’s work:

What happens when music becomes visual?

Explore the carousel and tell us: When you look at Bearden’s work, can you hear the music?

09/04/2026

CONJUR 2026 HONOREE SPOTLIGHT: PEG ALSTON

For more than five decades, Peg Alston has played a vital role in building recognition, audiences, and a market for African American art.

Through Peg Alston Fine Arts, she has championed work by generations of artists, from Elizabeth Catlett, Jacob Lawrence, Charles White, and Faith Ringgold to leading contemporary artists including Carrie Mae Weems.

Peg’s relationship to Romare Bearden makes this honor especially meaningful. Bearden and Norman Lewis served as mentors during the formative years of her career, and remained supporters of her commitment to advancing African American art.

We are proud to honor Peg at the Romare Bearden Foundation’s CONJUR: A Masked Affair on Thursday, October 29. She will be introduced by acclaimed artist Carrie Mae Weems, whose work is among the many Peg has championed throughout her extraordinary career.

Peg joins fellow 2026 honorees Howardena Pindell and Claude Grunitzky for an evening celebrating art, culture, community, and the continuing legacy of Romare Bearden.

🎟️ Tickets are available now, and sponsorship opportunities are still available for individuals and organizations interested in supporting the Foundation’s work.

Learn more, reserve tickets, or explore sponsorship opportunities:
bit.ly/Conjur26

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09/02/2026

Happy Birthday Romare Bearden!! September 2, 1911 - Charlotte, NC. Master painter, collagist, educator, author, lyricist, advocate, Harlemite. Images: Bearden as child with grandparents and great grandparents 2. Rehearsal Hall watercolor collage 3. Pittsburgh Memory, 1964 collage 4. Bearden at exhibition

08/24/2026

THIS WEDNESDAY | Tschabalala Self on Art, Identity, and the Power of Representation

Join the Romare Bearden Foundation on Wednesday, August 26 for a special edition of the Cinque Artist Talks, featuring internationally acclaimed artist Tschabalala Self in conversation with arts writer, curator, and author Halima Taha.

Self’s distinctive practice spans painting, collage, sculpture, and textiles, using the Black figure to explore identity, representation, and the possibilities of contemporary visual culture.

This conversation will consider the evolving tradition of Black figuration, how artists are redefining representation today, and the ways artists across generations have used visual language to imagine Black life with complexity and freedom.

Inspired by the legacies of Romare Bearden and the historic Cinque Gallery, the evening connects an important artistic history with the work being made now.

📅 Wednesday, August 26, 2026
💻 Virtual

Register today: tinyurl.com/Cinque826

Know someone who would enjoy this conversation? Share this post and invite them to join us.

08/18/2026

A special visit from St. Louis to New York! ✨

We recently welcomed Daniella Statia, the 2025–2027 Romare Bearden Graduate Museum Fellow at the Saint Louis Art Museum, to the Romare Bearden Foundation in NYC.

During her visit, Daniella spent time with Foundation Co-Directors Diedra Harris-Kelley and Johanne Bryant-Reid, learning more about the Foundation’s work and contributing her own expertise along the way. Her visit included hands-on work in the Foundation’s storage facility completing condition reports, conversations around organizational strategy, and consultation on an ongoing digital asset management project.

Daniella brings a rich background in art history and museum studies to the fellowship. She earned her MA in Art History from Tulane University, focusing on Blackness and Indigeneity in modern art of the Americas, and previously helped curate the University of Delaware’s online **Black Portrait Photography Collection**.

The Romare Bearden Graduate Museum Fellowship provides emerging museum professionals with hands-on experience across the field—and we were delighted to have Daniella spend part of that experience with us in New York.

Thank you, Daniella, for the thoughtful conversation, collaboration, and care you brought to the Foundation!

08/13/2026

The masks are coming out. ✨

This fall, CONJUR: A Masked Affair returns for an evening celebrating art, imagination, community—and the enduring creative spirit of Romare Bearden.

Inspired by Bearden’s world of ritual, memory, transformation, and possibility, CONJUR brings the Foundation’s community together for one unforgettable night.

Thursday, October 29, 2026

Join the Romare Bearden Foundation in New York City for CONJUR: A Masked Affair.

Know someone who should be there? Share this invitation with them.

🎟 Tickets are available now: bit.ly/Conjur26

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