My Hands Sing the Blues: Romare Bearden’s Childhood Journey
by Jeanne Walker Harvey (Author) and Elizabeth Zunon (Illustrator)
Booktalk: Follow Romare Bearden’s journey as a young boy in North Carolina who travels by train with his parents up to Harlem. This biography was inspired by one of Bearden’s collage paintings.
Snippet:
“I snip a patch of color and add a cut-out face.
Oh! I glue on jazzy blue for sky and add another face.
People walk into my work as if it’s always been their place.
My hands sing the blues when I paint and cut and paste.
I never know what I’ll create when I paint and cut and paste.
I use paper, fabrics, photos, and nothing goes to waste.”
**Jeanne is one of my former students!**
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Posted by Jeanne Walker Harvey on September 12, 2011 at 10:04 am
Thanks so much, Anastasia, for posting about my new book, MY HANDS SING THE BLUES. And many thanks again for all your guidance, inspiration, insight and expertise — you’re a terrific teacher and I’ve enjoyed and learned so much from all the online courses I’ve taken with you PLUS the one on one critiquing. Yesterday I was the featured speaker at Family Day at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art talking about this book — such a thrill!