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Romare Bearden, one of the artists represented in the exhibition, said: "It was in the 1930's that black artists emerged in appreciable numbers. The Federal Arts Projects were important in this, since they supported the artists while providing otherwise unaffordable technical training and materials, a chance for blacks to meet other artists, and practical experience in painting, sculpture and the graphic arts.

"The "Invisible Americans" exhibition will serve to document some of the contributions black artists have made and continue to make to American art. It is a welcome opportunity to see the work of some of these artists re-examined."

Works for the exhibition have been lent to the National Collection of Fine Arts at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., the Schomburg Collection of the New York Public Library, and the Countee Cullen Regional Center, as well as by artists and private collectors.

Members of the committee of black artists and specialists which assisted Mr. Ghent include Benny Andrews, painter and art instructor at Queens College, Carroll Greene, Jr., curator of the Afro-American Art Collection, Frederick Douglass Institute, Washington, D.C., Vivian Browne, painter and art supervisor for the New York City board of Education, Felrath Hines, painter and art restorer, and Faith Ringgold, painter and teacher.

Members of the Studio Museum's Program Committee also cooperated with Mr. Ghent. Charles Cowels, publisher of Artforum magazine is chairman, and Wendell Wray, director of the North Manhattan Project, is co-chairman.

The Studio Museum in Harlem, which opened for the first time in September, is located at 2033 Fifth Avenue at 125th Street. It is open weekdays from 10 to 6, Saturday and Sunday from 1 to 6, and Monday and Wednesday evenings to 9. Admission is free.

The public is invited to meet the organizers of the exhibition and some of the artists at an open house at the Studio Museum on Sunday afternoon, November 24, from 2 to 6.
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