Dear ART | library deco supporters:
Thank you for always taking the time to read and interact with the only African American virtual art library, gallery, and repository that delves into the Black experience in art, literature, and culture. This year once again had its highs and lows in all things centered around African American culture! To end this year, we have curated a listing of content for you to review at your leisure during the holiday season. For now, sit back, rewind in time and catch up on content, news, and information missed throughout the year. Our library curatorial team is looking forward to bringing you relevant content in 2023 that matters and will expand your horizons in African American art.
ART | library deco will go on break from December 1 – January 15, 2023.
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From The Atlantic.com: An Excerpt from TA-NEHISI COATES forthcoming book, Between The World and Me “…And what did that mean for the Dreamers I’d seen as a child? Could I ever want to get into the world they made? No. I was born among a people, Samori, and in that realization I knew that I…
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From Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History: July 8, 1860 The Clotilda, the last known United States slave ship to bring enslaved Africans to the U. S., entered the Mississippi Sound and anchored off Point-of-Pines in Grand Bay, Alabama with 110 African captives. The United States had banned the importation of enslaved people January…
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Take a look at the full transcript of Noah Purifoy’s interview for UCLA’s oral history project highlighting African-American artists available on the Internet Archive. On View | Noah Purifoy: Junk Dada, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art through September 27.
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From Black Artist News Dread Scott: Radical Conscience Text | A.M. Weaver Excerpt: Dread Scott’s edict is make “revolutionary” art — to propel history forward.” Since the early 1990s, after graduating from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and completing the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program, Scott has joined the…
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Excerpt, From Black Art In America: Interview with Adama Delphine Question: Throughout your career you’ve documented a diverse range of individuals & personalities that so happen to be classified as black. I must ask, what are you trying to communicate, or expose through you work? Answer: My main goal is to document and create art…
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AFROPUNK 2015 is coming Join us in Atlanta’s Central Park in the Old Fourth Ward for a weekend of live music, vibrant art and good vibes on Saturday, October 3rd and Sunday, October 4th. To say thanks for the support, we’re offering exclusive access to Early Bird tickets to members of the AFROPUNK community. To access…
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Tune in Sunday Evenings 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm NEW…ONLY ON WRR…JAZZ AT FAIR PARK Jazz at Fair Park is a new, weekly program produced by WRR-FM (101.1), Dallas’ station for classical music and the arts. Produced and broadcast from the historic WRR studios in Fair Park, the program airs Sunday evening from 7 to 8…
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Poetry and Its Futures An opening panel of distinguised poets and literary scholars will forecast probable trajectories for poetry in the 21st century. Panelists include Kevin Young (Emory University), Frank X Walker (University of Kentucky), Lauri Ramey (California State University), Megan Kaminski (KU English), Stephanie Fitzgerald (KU English) and moderator Joanne Gabbin (James madison University).…
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From PBS.org: “Dressed to kill from head to feet. Baskets full of food to eat. You can’t get this on your TV: The Juneteenth Jamboree!” -Gladys Bentley In the United States, the institution of slavery ended at different times in different places. The states of Vermont, Massachusetts, and New York had constitutional bans against slavery in place before the…
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From Culturetype: OVER THE PAST YEAR, visual artists have responded to the steady clip of national news stories about unarmed black men and youth being killed by police. Titus Kaphur painted the Ferguson, Mo., protestors for Time magazine; Dred Scott wrote an essay titled “Illegitimate” for the Walker Art Center on the killing of Michael…
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