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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Mural in east Baltimore painted by the incredible artist Ernest Shaw. It is important to acknowledge the genius and talent that walks among us everyday. When little kids ask who are those people on the wall, the full answer will lead them into the discovery of their people and their history. — At 401 E.
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The New York Public Library Community Oral History Project presents “A People’s History of Harlem A Harlem Neighborhood Oral History Project” This is a neighborhood oral history project that works to both preserve and document Harlem history through the stories of people who have experienced it. This project will collect oral histories of people who
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— May 8 – Oct. 11, 2015 “Portraits and Other Likenesses from SFMOMA” @ Museum of African Diaspora | San Francisco This special “exhibition explores how portraiture has evolved from a form of personal identification to a genre as invested in fiction, subversion, stereotype, and fantasy as it is in the description of physical traits.”
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Event: Curlee Holton, Founder and Director, The Experimental Printmaking Institute lecture at the Columbus Museum April, 18th 2015 | The Unique Role that the Art of Printmaking Plays in the Contemporary World of Visual Communication Media. Special invited guest of Black Art In America. Click on video and listen to lecture. Article Republished Courtesy, Black Art In America
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— Since his early work with the Video Venice Collective in the 1970s, Ulysses S. Jenkins has been creating powerful work that provokes and boldly ask questions regarding of race, history and images. As University of Chicago Professor Jacqueline Stewart points out Jenkins’ work “critiques mass media representation (particularly of African American men) while exploring
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Gregory Pardlo won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry on Monday for his book “Digest.” Read Article in NY TImes | Read Poem: “Double Dutch”
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Listen to Radio Podcast Jericho Brown was a first-time guest on the Poetry Show for April 5, 2015. Host Dennis Morton sat down for an interview with the young poet, whose new published collection is titled The New Testament (Copper Canyon Press, 2014). The wide-ranging conversation encompassed much more than poetry, and was interspersed with
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ABOUT THIS EVENT Celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month! Join Jazz Arts Initiative and the Harvey B. Gantt Center as we launch Jazz in Session! Explore and revisit milestone recordings that helped shape America’s classical music: Jazz. Enjoy guided listening sessions and learn about the artists, their inspiration, other recordings and the musical era. Dr. Will Campbell, UNC
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The First Book Of Rhythms (1954) is the second of five books that Langston Hughes (1902-1967) wrote for the Franklin Watts First Books series. “When boys and girls FIRST start asking why?…what?…and how? FIRST BOOKS are the first books to read on any subject.” Robin King (1919-2010) worked as an artist at both Marvel and
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