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.
-
— AN EXPRESSIVE COLLAGE TECHNIQUE introduces both tactile and narrative dimensions to Benny Andrews‘s (1930-2006) canvases. Evoking a tangible sense of pride, strength and strife, his textural paintings articulate remembrances from his childhood in the segregated South and the socio-political issues about which he was passionate throughout his career in New York. The first comprehensive
-
— Streamed live on Mar 26, 2015 From the early days of the Civil Rights movement, African American women have worked and served in numerous and influential leadership roles. What are their experiences and what changes have taken place in their opportunities, expectations, responsibilities, and obstacles? A panel discusses their personal journeys and the advice
-
Movies and Messages: The Movie Posters of Art Sims Location: MSU Musuem, Entry Hall Now Through – April 30th “Movies and Messages: The Movie Posters of Art Sims” features the work of graphic designer and Michigan State University Alumnus Art Sims. Sims attended Cass Technical High School in Detroit, earning a scholarship to study art
-
PROJECT SERIES 50: Brenna Youngblood Now Through – May 17, 2015 POMONA COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART 330 North College Avenue Claremont, CA Brenna Youngblood creates evocative and moody abstract paintings and sculptures that subtly examine representation and the multiplicity of meaning. By combining materials such as canvas, found papers, panel, faux wood, and acrylic paint with
-
From The New York Times: The Unknown Notebooks of Jean-Michel Basquiat Graffitist, painter, actor, poet: The late artist’s rarely seen personal writings and sketches are expressions of 1980s downtown New York, and, perhaps, of his truest vision. Full Story: http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/05/jean-michel-basquiat-notebooks/?ref=t-magazine Art Exhibit: “Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks,” opens on April 3. April 3–August 23, 2015, Brooklyn Museum,
-
Interventions in Printmaking: Three Generations of African-American Women Allentown Art Museum of the Lehigh Valley — This exhibition features artists from throughout the United States and the African diaspora who have brokered new technologies and approaches to printmaking while addressing issues pertaining to history, identity, and politics. In works ranging from the representational to the
-
— When Farah Griffin asked her mother what she remembered about World War II, her response was, “All the handsome soldiers who drove the buses in Philadelphia.” Griffin, the William B. Ransford Professor of English, Comparative Literature and African American Studies, was perplexed. Then she thought, of course, she was a teenager, she remembers handsome
-
—- Gee’s Bend: From Quilts to Prints Date(s): Now through May 17, 2015 In 2002 the widely acclaimed touring exhibition The Quilts of Gee’s Bend brought to the attention of the art world the bold, improvisational quilts made by generations of women from the rural community of Gee’s Bend, Alabama. Less well known are a series
-
— WomenArts is a worldwide community of artists and allies that works for empowerment, opportunity, and visibility for women artists. We provide a variety of free online networking, fundraising and advocacy services, and we organize Support Women Artists Now Day (SWAN Day), an annual international holiday celebrating women’s creativity in all its forms. We believe
-
—- T-Rex is an intimate story about a new kind of American heroine. For the first time, women’s boxing is included in the 2012 Olympics. Fighting for gold is 17-year-old Claressa “T-Rex” Shields. From the streets of Flint, Michigan, Claressa is undefeated and utterly confident. Her fierceness extends beyond the ring. She desperately wants to
ART | library deco 
Share Your Feedback with ART | library deco!