"Something over something else" - Romare Bearden's Profile Series at the Cincinnati Art Museum. Tour from 10:30am to approx. 12:30 followed by a "make-your-own-collage" workshop until 2:30-3 pm *
We will explore this African-American artist's famous series of vibrant collages where he reflects on his life from his childhood to adulthood.  
*you will need to purchase your own ticket for this exhibition - more details to come for the workshop - probably a BYO picnic for the day.
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Something Over Something Else: Romare Bearden’s Profile Series reunites for the first time thirty vibrant collages from this renowned series. In 1977, a “Profile” of Bearden by Calvin Tomkins in the New Yorker provoked the artist to reflect upon his childhood and maturity during the 1920s and 30s. The result was a two-part series that traces his journey from rural Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, to working-class Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and culminates with his treasured first studio in Manhattan’s Harlem neighborhood.

Yet transcending autobiography, Bearden’s Profile Series, accompanied by evocative texts co-written by Bearden and his friend the author Albert Murray, expresses a deep reverence for humanity and the struggles and triumphs of African Americans.

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