Bearden Foundation’s Diedra Harris-Kelly speaks at Lincoln Center

Free Panel Discussion, January 21st – 2pm

Includes: Diedra Harris-Kelly, Edie Shaw Marcus, Paul Devlin & Robert O’Meally

Paris Blues Revisited: Romare Bearden, Albert Murray, Sam Shaw

A panel of experts will explore the three collaborators’ motives for working together on the book-on-the-wall exhibition entitled Paris Blues Revisited: Romare Bearden, Albert Murray, Sam Shaw. Moderated by Bearden’s niece and the co-director of the Harlem based Romare Bearden Foundation, DiedraHarris-Kelley, the panel features Shaw’s daughter and part owner of The Shaw Family Archives, Edie Shaw Marcus, writer and contributor to the recent Albert Murray book, Paul Devlin, and Robert O’Meally, Professor of Literature at Columbia University and co-curator of Paris Blues Revisited.

Paris Blues Revisited is curated by Robert G. O’Meally, C. Daniel Dawson and Diedra Harris Kelley, and designed by Florio Design.

The exhibit has been extended on view through February 28, 2012.

The Peter Jay Sharp Arcade, Frederick P. Rose Hall, Columbus Circle.

For more information on this exhibition and panel discussion, please visit jalc.org/exhibit.

Saturday, January 21, 2012 – 2pm.

The Edward John Noble Foundation Studio at Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, Broadway at 60th Street, New York, NY.

Event is free and seating is open to the public on a first come, first served basis.  Doors open at 1:30pm.