February 18, 2004
Contact: Lauren Howard, 415.357.4176, [email protected] Victoria Shelton, 415.283.0303, [email protected] Libby Garrison, 415.357.4177, [email protected]
SUNDAY JAZZ BRUNCHES PRESENTED BY SFMOMA AND SFJAZZ TO CELEBRATE THE ART OF ROMARE BEARDEN
What In celebration of the exhibition The Art of Romare Bearden, SFMOMA will offer a series of Sunday jazz brunches in partnership with SFJAZZ—the San Francisco Jazz Organization. Guests will enjoy a sumptuous buffet brunch of traditional Southern fare infused with the spirit of the Harlem Renaissance while listening to live jazz by some of the Bay Area’s top performers. Jazz musicians have frequently inspired and been inspired by visual artists. The affinity that Romare Bearden (1911–1988)—one of the most vibrant and visionary American painters of the twentieth century—felt for jazz music is reflected in many of his paintings and collages currently on view at SFMOMA. Caterer Betty Zlatchin is basing her creations on recipes from the cookbook What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking, believed to be the first cookbook by an African American and perhaps the only one by a former slave. It was first published in 1881 in San Francisco by Abby Fisher, a caterer to the city’s elite. The menu will include scrambled eggs with chives; French toast with powdered sugar and orange maple syrup; southern-style baked ham with cloves, apricots and pineapple; homemade biscuits and cornbread twists; and sweet potato pie, pecan pie, and chocolate layer cake by Beth’s Fine Desserts, Inc. When Sundays, March 14 through May 9 Hours 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. seatings, one set of music per seating Who Jazz Schedule March 14 Kim Nalley March 21 Kim Nalley March 28 Brenda Boykin and the Eric Swinderman Quartet April 4 Brenda Boykin’s Home Cookin’ April 11 Jules Broussard Quintet April 18 Khalil Shaheed Quintet April 25 Howard Wiley Quintet May 2 Marcus Shelby Trio May 9 Le Jazz Hot, the quartet of the Hot Club of San Francisco
Where SFMOMA, 151 Third Street, San Francisco The Schwab Room Tickets Prices: $30 general; $25 SFMOMA members, students with ID, and seniors; $10 children 12 and under. Tickets, which include admission to the Museum, are available at the Museum with no surcharge or through Ticketweb at www.ticketweb.com or 866.468.3399. More Sunday Jazz Brunch is sponsored by Banana Republic. * * * Visit our Web site at www.sfmoma.org or call 415.357.4000 for more information.
The Art of Romare Bearden is organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. The exhibition is made possible with generous support from AT&T.
SFMOMA’s presentation is supported by a generous grant from the Koret Foundation and Catholic Healthcare West.
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is a private, not-for-profit institution supported by its members, individual contributors to Donor Circle; corporate and foundation support; foreign, federal and state government grants; and admission revenues. Annual programming is sustained through the generosity of Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, The James Irvine Foundation, and the Koret Foundation. Thursday evening half-priced admission is sponsored by Banana Republic. Media sponsors: San Francisco Bay Guardian and SFSTATION. Reduced admission for seniors is sponsored by SBC. KidstART free admission for children twelve and under is made possible by Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.
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