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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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Housed in a small office space in Harlem’s Adam Clayton Powell Jr. state office building, the Museum of African American Cinema (MoAAC) contains over 4,000 collectible items, from vintage film prints to original costumes from films like Malcolm X and Ghost Dad. Gregory Javan Mills, Ernest N. Steele and 20 other founding members established MoAAC as a non-profit back in 2001, after seeing the need…
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Scarlett in a new-ish dress. Sketchbook thing. Sorting through confused bits, modifying patterns. I’m rebuilding myself; ship of Theseus – oldish and newish and altogether different. (Poem by Artist)
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Learn more about African American women in librarianship an art via your local library! Get You Some History!
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It wasn’t until graduate school that Michelle Joan Wilkinson, director of collections and exhibitions at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture, realized that becoming a curator could be a viable profession. She now hopes the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s recent announcement of a diversity initiative to provide curatorial training…
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CONTEMPORARY ARTS MUSEUM HOUSTON Date | March 13th @ 6:30 PM | 5216 Montrose Boulevard – Houston, TX Cost: FREE From the CAMH web site: Join artist Nathaniel Donnett for a lecture held in conjunction with the exhibition Black in the Abstract, Part 2: Hard Edges/Soft Curves. Donnett will discuss his artwork by presenting insights…
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Date: February 21 – March 31, 2014 Reception: Friday, February 21, 2014, 6:00 – 9:00PM Exhibit hours: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 12:00 – 3:00PM, and during public events ARTS AND PUBLIC LIFE Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture 301 East Garfield Boulevard Chicago, IL Library of Love is a visual love letter to…
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Date: Thursday, March 6, 2014, 7:00 – 8:00PM Location: EVANSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY | Community Meeting Room | 1703 Orrington Avenue | Evanston, IL How have black women been represented visually? How have they represented themselves? And how have those images shaped our understanding of what, in fact, constitutes representation? To answer these questions, art historian Huey Copeland examines…
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— Clip : In an eloquently delivered acceptance speech, Visual Arts Award honoree Carrie Mae Weems acknowledges those that have widened the path to make her work possible, including the other honorees. Watch! Season 2014 (02/24/2014). “I just want to be remembered as being fair, being honest, being able to tell the truth. That would…
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Date: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 Time: 6:30 pm reception | 7:00 pm Screening and Q&A with John Guess, Jr. Bert is an hour-long documentary film that follows the life and art of the esteemed RomePrize winner, Bert L. Long, Jr, as seen through the eyes of collectors, colleagues, gallerists, and friends. Narrated by artist John…
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During the first half of the 20th century, the city of Chicago was shaped and reshaped by waves of migration and immigration as African Americans poured in from the South and newcomers arrived from Europe and Mexico. They Seek a City, a 2013 exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, focused on the art produced…
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