This exhibition consists of works on paper and handmade artist books portraying the unique and vast complexities of our American identity and sensibility.

This groundbreaking exhibition celebrates a diverse selection of late twentieth century and contemporary artists who participated from 1969 – 2004 in this pioneering artist collaborative enterprise. The Romare Bearden Foundation is an institutional partner of The Art Students League in this unprecedented tribute.

Music as Image and Metaphor brings together forty-one works by twenty-eight artists from the Kentler Flatfiles (Brooklyn, NY) focused on the theme of music. The theme of music-as-image includes works that were directly inspired by or are illustrative of sound art, while the image-as-metaphor theme encompasses a diverse group of works that, directly or indirectly, reflect the structure and artistic goals of musical composition and improvisation.