Romare Bearden, a leading twentieth-century painter and collage artist, was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1911. He grew up in New York and Pittsburgh, and his childhood memories of both cities would become frequent subject matter of his art later in life. Mr. Bearden attended Boston University and graduated from NYU with a degree
Frances Barth was born in the Bronx, in New York City, and studied painting at Hunter College. While an art student she also studied modern dance, and saw The Mind is a Muscle at the Anderson Theater in the East Village, which led her to take a workshop with Yvonne Rainer, and subsequently to perform
Lillian Ball is an artist and environmental activist working in New York. Water imagery has been a constant subtext, but recent subject matter focuses specifically on environmental concerns. ”Leap of Faith," a recent body of work, uses photography and video installation to address the issues around an ongoing wetland preservation project on the North Fork
SoHyun Bae received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1990 and a Master of Fine Arts from Boston University in 1994. She then preceded to study religious philosophy at Harvard University where she received a Master of Theological Studies in 1997, having worked with Nobel Laureate Elie
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