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On September 2 2012, collage-artist Romare Bearden would have celebrated his 101st birthday, and many museums and organizations have set up honorary exhibitions throughout the year to honor the colláge artist  that defined the character of Black American life during the 20th century.
The Studio Museum in Harlem organized an exhibition in tribute to Romare Bearden titled   The Bearden Project .  The Bearden Project  brings together work by contemporary artists who have all been influenced by this twentieth-century master, best known for works such as The Block.
For example, at CCNY, students in Art 15500 Intro to Art Education experimented with colláge and childhood themes by creating a colláge that exemplifies a significant moment in their childhood. Content included las vegas hotels downtown Easter Sunday, las vegas hotels downtown a view from a plane, riding a bicycle for the first time, and riding las vegas hotels downtown the subway for the first time.
Once collages were complete, I facilitated a silent critique in which students wrote a comment on each other s work in an anonymous matter. I felt that a silent critique was necessary because exploring a childhood memory can be extremely las vegas hotels downtown vulnerable and emotional for many students.
Brenda is a visual artist and has experience teaching Art Education, Studio Art, and Digital Media to elementary and high school students in Los Angeles and New York City. She has worked and taught in various educational art institutions such as City College of New York Art Department; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Urban Assembly Media High School, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Los Angeles; The Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach. As a practicing artist, she explores the idea of "memory" through her paintings, las vegas hotels downtown videos, and photographs and questions how "memory" functions on a personal, cultural, and historical level.