what is now MLK Boulevard and Graham Street. The park design is based on work of public artist Norie Sato. Her concepts were inspired by Bearden's multimedia collages. Fittingly, the park serves as an entryway to a minor league baseball stadium, BB&T Charlotte Knights Ballpark. Bearden's home in Harlem, New York is a Historic Landmark Preservation site. DC Moore Gallery currently represents the estate of Romare Bearden. The first exhibition of his works at the gallery was in September 2008. In 2014-15, Columbia University hosted a major Smithsonian Institution travelling exhibition of Bearden's work and an accompanying series of lectures, readings, performances, and other events celebrating the artist. On display at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Gallery on Columbia's Morningside campus, and also at Columbia's Global Centers in Paris and Istanbul, Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey focused on the cycle of collages and watercolors Bearden completed in 1977 based on Homer's epic poem, The Odyssey. For a 2005 U.S. postal stamp sheet commemorating ten important milestones of the Civil Rights Movement, Beardon's 1984 lithograph "The Lamp" was selected to illustrate the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision. In 2011, the U.S. Postal Service released a set of Forever stamps featuring four of Bearden's paintings during a first-day-of-issuance ceremony at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. In 2017, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond announced acquisition of Romare Bearden's collage, Three Folk Musicians, as part of the museum's permanent collection. The collage, which shows two guitar players and a banjo player, is often cited in art history books. It was shown at the VMFA for the first time in February 2017 in the museum's mid- to late 20th-century galleries. Published works Lil Dan, the Drummer Boy, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003 coauthor: with Harry Henderson, Six Black Masters of American Art, New York: Doubleday, 1972 with Carl Holty, The Painter's Mind, Taylor & Francis, originally published in 1969 with Harry Henderson, of A History of African-American Artists. From 1792 to The Present, New York: Pantheon Books 1993 Honors and awards Founded the 306 Group, a club for Harlem artists In 1966 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters In 1972 he was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters In 1978, Bearden was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member In 1987,