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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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SHE WAS ART… “…A chronicle of my family on their travels from Alabama to Detroit. We are all looking for something, all traveling from here to there.” Gilda Snowden, 1988 According to the African American Registry, Gilda Snowden was born on July 29, 1954. She was a Black artist, educator, and mentor. The artist transitioned on…
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“All truly great art is propaganda.” — Ann Petry Cover Image, Ann Petry, Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964. Petry, Ann. Box 223. 1948 November 12. https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/2022340. Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters. James Weldon Johnson Collection in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
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ROSE PIPER October 7, 1917 – May 11, 2005 She was a Black painter best known for her semi-abstract, blues-inspired paintings of the 1940s. Chapter 1: About Her Biography Rose Piper’s style shifted throughout her career, yet the root of her artwork stems from her abstract style. She explores themes of African American identity and blacks’ lives in…
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SPRING READING SMU presents the Dallas Literary Festival as a way to showcase and encourage conversations about contemporary literature, both on campus and in the larger community. All events are free and open to the public, but you MUST register for each of the events you are attending ahead of time. Registrations can be made…
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Ming Smith is an American photographer. She was the first African-American female photographer whose work was acquired by the Museum Of Modern Art in New York City. Smith was born in 1947, in Detroit, Michigan, and raised in Columbus, Ohio. After graduating from Howard University in 1973, she moved to New York City, where she…
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JOIN THE LITERATI ART EXPERIENCE #allmyfriendsreadbooks PREVIEW BOOK ↗ Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid. Alain LeRoy Locke (1983). “Crit Temp Alain Locke: A Selection of His Essays on Art and Culture”, Scholarly Title
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For nearly fifty years, Mid-America Arts Alliance has been sharing and advancing the work of artists and scholars in communities large and small. This work has included efforts to nurture the next generation of leading artists whose creative expression is grounded in authentic historic narrative. Voices of Our Region tells their stories. This online resource…
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From the Blanton Museum of Art, Assembly: New Acquisitions by Contemporary Black Artists EXHIBITION OPEN THROUGH MAY 8, 2022 The title of the presentation, Assembly, embraces the heterogeneity of work made by Black artists, refusing generalization, essentialization, and definitive interpretation. As theorized by the late British cultural critic Stuart Hall and expanded on by American philosopher…
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