"I have wrapped my dreams in a silken cloth, And laid them away in a box of gold" Countee Cullen

Artist Rossella BLUE Mocerino and poet Countee Cullen I first came in contact with Harlem when I exhibited a few years ago at the 115 Street Library (now renamed The Harry Belafonte Library). I discovered some great restaurants but what made the biggest impact on me were the large photographs hanging on top of the shelves at the Library, where I was exhibiting, depicting many of Harlem’s Greats. Some were familiar to me already; others I did not know of them yet. My paintings