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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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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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NEGRO EDUCATION: A STUDY OF THE PRIVATE AND HIGHER SCHOOLS FOR COLORED PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES Date Issued: 1917 Place: WashingtonPublisher: U.S. G.P.O. Library LocationSchomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division Shelf locator: Sc 370.973-U (United States. Office of Education. Negro education) [Print] v. 1 NOTESStatement of responsibility: prepared in…
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MUSEUMS AS SYSTEMS The Studio Museum in Harlem Agenda: June 14 – June 15, 2022 | Time: 5:00 PM – 7:45 PM CST | Zoom In its inaugural iteration, Museums as Systems asks: How are museums systems of artistry, archives, education, labor, care, communication, and communities? By assembling curators, writers, educators, critics, creatives, and administrators in…
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