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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Featured History of Black Writing (HBW) Black Literary Suite with Dr. Dawn Duke Description: Dr. Duke will deliver her talk virtually from Brazil. Time: Sep 15, 2022 05:30 PM in Central Time (US and Canada) This year’s theme, “Black Beyond Borders” / “Negritud Sin Fronteras,” highlights Afro-Latinx writing and scholarship with a talk by Dr. Dawn…
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Migrations Visiting Artist Talk From the Johnson Museum of Art Join the Johnson Museum of Art and Precious Okoyomon—Nigerian American poet, sculptor, and avant-garde chef—for a participatory talk exploring themes of migration, dispossession, and redress. Okoyomon’s large-scale, immersive artworks are especially concerned with the entangled fate of humans, plants, and animal species as they move…
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Join the MFA Boston for five exciting lectures in a series that brings the greatest names in their fields through our doors. The Ruth and Carl J. Shapiro Celebrity Lectures From the MFA Boston Hear from innovative artists, museum directors, activists, and writers in an ongoing conversation with you—their audience—on stimulating issues in culture today. Chosen…
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Women Painting Women The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth presents Women Painting Women, athematic exhibition of forty-six women artists who choose women as subject matter in their works. This exhibition is organized by Chief Curator Andrea Karnes and will be on view at the Modern through September 25, 2022
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ART library patron membership includes: A personalized library card Digital art library patron badge Emailed newsletter Reference Chat: ASK ART Librarian Access to Black Art Library Catalog Personal invites to virtual art events ART | library deco is an affiliate of society6, an affiliate art program designed to provide a means for creative institutions to earn…
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NOW IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN The Weary Blues, 1926 by James Mercer Langston Hughes On January 1, 2022, copyrighted works from entered the US public domain where they are free for all to copy, share, and build upon. Langston Hughes’ The Weary Blues, is now available in this year’s domain. Written in 1925, “The Weary Blues” was first…
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“I believe that the African American’s advantages and opportunities are greater in Harlem than in any other place in the country, and that Harlem will become the intellectual, the cultural and the financial center for Negroes of the United States and will exert a vital influence upon all Negro peoples.” —James Weldon Johnson, “Harlem: The…
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ALL THAT LIGHT For the last decade, Arts + Public Life (APL) and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture (CSRPC) have co-hosted an Artists-in-Residence program intentionally designed to center Black and Brown artists working in Chicago’s South Side. Ten years later, these AIRs alumni are among Chicago’s most compelling and successful…
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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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