News Bureau (516) 463-6818 Hofstra University Celebrates Black
History Month Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY - Bearden,
Lawrence and Parks: Artists of Influence exhibit opens on
January 29, 2007 and runs through April 5, 2007 in the Hofstra
University Museum's David Filderman Gallery on the ninth floor
of the David E. Axinn Library, south campus. The exhibit
highlights three twentieth-century American artists acclaimed
for their artistic talents and for the way in which they
communicated the African American experience, in essence,
turning it into the human experience, states Director of the
Hofstra University Museum Beth Levinthal. Romare Bearden is best
known for his collage work that began with his founding of the
Spiral group in 1963, which was comprised of African American
artists who met to discuss their commitment to the civil rights
movement and how, as artists, they would express that
commitment. His works on exhibit include The Train and Homage to
Mary Lou (The Piano Lesson). Jacob Lawrence traine