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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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“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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Cover Image: Public Domain | Why all Americans should honor Juneteenth, Courtesy of Vox.com & The Austin History Center.
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Featured Stay Black & Live (SB&L) is a weekend-long celebration hosted by CarverMuseumATX and Six Square that takes place on June 18th and 19th.
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NOW ON VIEW Visit Thru –July 31, 2022 Kimbell Art Museum The Language of Beauty in African Art presents nearly 250 remarkable works from collections around the world—compelling art that scholars, connoisseurs and collectors outside Africa have admired for more than a century. The exhibition features an incredible variety of objects, including a range of impressive and powerful sculptures, captivating costumes…
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A SITE OF STRUGGLE: American Art against Anti-Black Violence August 12 through November 6, 2022 Overview A Site of Struggle: American Art against Anti-Black Violence explores how artists have grappled with the reality of anti-black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation. From the horrors of slavery and lynching, to the violent suppression of civil rights…
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FROM THE MET Watson Library’s publications from their collection on African American art and artists: The books represent a selection of over eight hundred publications acquired through an initiative launched in July 2020 to significantly enhance our collection of monographs, exhibition catalogs, periodicals, zines, and artists’ books by and about African American art and artists.…
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UPCOMING EXHIBITION CALLED TO CREATE: BLACK ARTISTS OF THE AMERICAN SOUTH THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART September 18, 2022 – March 26, 2023East Building, Upper Level, West Bridge ABOUT EXHIBITION For decades Thornton Dial, James “Son Ford” Thomas, Lonnie Holley, Mary T. Smith, Purvis Young, and many other Black artists in the South worked with little recognition,…
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Featured Sketching in the Galleries at the National Museum of African Art Like to draw? Have some free time on Thursdays? Drop in and explore the galleries. Sketch pads, pencils, museum maps, and chairs are available in the Pavilion. If you bring your own art supplies, please note only dry, nonchalky-media pencil. wax crayon. and…
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