2024 CPAL Class - Cultivating Scholarly, Curatorial, and Public Interest

CPAL Class - Cultivating Scholarly, Curatorial, and Public Interest for Legacy Artists, Artist Trusts, and Foundations

Join us for a new CPAL class on Cultivating Scholarly, Curatorial, and Public Interest for Legacy Artists, Artist Trusts, and Foundations.

Class title: Cultivating Scholarly, Curatorial, and Public Interest for Legacy Artists, Artist Trusts, and Foundations

Instructed by: Diedra Harris-Kelley

Time: October 30, 3-5pm

Tickets available: CPAL’s website & Eventbrite

This is a two-hour class with the last 30 minutes dedicated to Q&A.

Subjects to be discussed:

• TBD

About the instructor:

Diedra Harris-Kelley is Co-Director of the Romare Bearden Foundation, the non-profit organization perpetuating the legacy of one of our greatest American visual artists. She offers a unique perspective on Bearden’s work, being a formally trained painter, and niece of the artist’s late wife, Nanette Rohan Bearden. For the last decade, she has been part of the team leading the foundation through a successful run of exhibitions, publications, educational and celebratory programs around the life and art of Bearden.

Harris-Kelley earned a BA in Art from California State University, Long Beach, and an MFA from the University of Michigan. She has taught seminar at Barnard College, and has taught studio art at New York University, Parsons School of Design Studio Program, and for alternative high school and elementary school programs; as well as conducted professional development workshops and lectures on art. She was a member of the curatorial team of Jazz at Lincoln Center from 2009 to 2012; and is the author of “Revisiting Romare Bearden’s Art of Improvisation,” published in Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies (Columbia University, 2004).

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Host or Publisher Center for the Preservation of Artists' Legacies