Today, February 15, 2013, Ashe to Amen: African Americans and Biblical Imagery Opens at the Museum of Biblical Art.  One of the paintings in the exhibition, Madonna and Child by Romare Bearden (above), is on loan from Bryn Mawr College Special Collections.  The exhibition will be open until May 26, 2013 at MOBiA and then it will travel to the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture June 22 – September 29, 2013; and the Dixon Gallery and Gardens October 20, 2013 – January 5, 2014.

More information on the exhibition can be found at: http://mobia.org/exhibitions/ashe-to-amen#slideshow1

More information about Madonna and Child by Romare Bearden can be found at: http://triarte.brynmawr.edu/Obj164044