ART REWIND
Founded in 1946 as Negro Achievements by Horace J. Blackwell, an African-American clothing merchant of Fort Worth, Texas, who also had already founded The World’s Messenger in 1942, featuring romance-true confession type stories of working-class blacks, Sepia is a photojournalistic magazine that featured articles based primarily on achievements of African Americans. It was part of the rise of postwar publications and businesses aimed at black audiences. George Levitan, a Jewish-American man born in Michigan, who was a plumbing merchant in Fort Worth, bought the magazines and Good Publishing Company (aka Sepia Publishing) in 1950. He changed the magazine’s name gradually; in 1954 he named it Sepia, and published it until his death in 1976. He changed the name of Messenger to Bronze Thrills and had success with that for some time as well, also publishing black-audience magazines Hep and Jive.
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ART EMANCIPATION | REGISTER FOR THE JUNETEENTH 2022 (SELF-PACED) WIKIPEDIA EDIT-A-THON
Happy Emancipation Day! Join ART | library deco and Wikimedia DC for a special day that will consist of archiving Texas’ Black History. This event welcomes beginners, intermediate, and advanced transcribers. Edit current articles from an archived list and or contribute new content. From Nina Jay: Fawohodie is an Adinkra symbol that comes from the term […]
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ART FREEDOM | Documentary Film By VOX, “Why All Americans Should Honor Juneteenth”
Cover Image: Public Domain | Why all Americans should honor Juneteenth, Courtesy of Vox.com & The Austin History Center.
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ART JUNETEENTH | 2022: STAY BLACK & LIVE, AUSTIN’S CITYWIDE JUNETEENTH FESTIVAL
Featured Stay Black & Live (SB&L) is a weekend-long celebration hosted by CarverMuseumATX and Six Square that takes place on June 18th and 19th.
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ART DIASPORIA | The Language of Beauty in African Art , The Kimbell Museum
NOW ON VIEW Visit Thru –July 31, 2022 Kimbell Art Museum The Language of Beauty in African Art presents nearly 250 remarkable works from collections around the world—compelling art that scholars, connoisseurs and collectors outside Africa have admired for more than a century. The exhibition features an incredible variety of objects, including a range of impressive and powerful sculptures, captivating costumes […]
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ART Advocacy | SUMMER/FALL 2022 EXHIBITION: A SITE of STRUGGLE, AMERICAN ART AGAINST ANTI BLACK VIOLENCE
A SITE OF STRUGGLE: American Art against Anti-Black Violence August 12 through November 6, 2022 Overview A Site of Struggle: American Art against Anti-Black Violence explores how artists have grappled with the reality of anti-black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation. From the horrors of slavery and lynching, to the violent suppression of civil rights […]
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ART TITLES | A Selection of African American Art and Artists’ Books, The MET MUSEUM
FROM THE MET Watson Library’s publications from their collection on African American art and artists: The books represent a selection of over eight hundred publications acquired through an initiative launched in July 2020 to significantly enhance our collection of monographs, exhibition catalogs, periodicals, zines, and artists’ books by and about African American art and artists. […]
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