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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“Okay listen, you think I’m so inconsequential? Then try this on for size. All those who see unworthiness when they look at me and are given thereby to denying me value – to you I say, I’m not talking about being AS GOOD as you. I hereby declare myself BETTER than you.” — Sidney Poitier…
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Founded in 1946 as Negro Achievements by Horace J. Blackwell, an African-American clothing merchant of Fort Worth, Texas, who also had already founded The World’s Messenger in 1942, featuring romance-true confession type stories of working-class blacks, Sepia is a photojournalistic magazine that featured articles based primarily on achievements of African Americans. It was part of the rise of postwar…
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Free Texas African American Art, History, and Photography Exhibitions Through February 2022 African American Museum3536 Grand Ave.Dallas, TX 75201 Get Directions > | Visit Museum Online Prairie View Interscholastic League: On View Through February 15, 2022 The History of the Prairie View Interscholastic League: Black High School Sports in Texas in the Era of Segregation:…
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Cover Artwork: Faith Ringgold in front of Tar Beach #2 (1990) quilt, 1993 | Photo (cropped) by Kathy Willens, Fair use
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Transcribing United States Colored Troop – Civil War Records MLK DAY OF SERVICE Join ART | library deco for a LIVE transcribing records session using the National Archives’ United States Colored Troop – Civil War Records as a resource to archive Black History! In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, spend some time…
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Intersectionally feminist self-care manual for the POC artist Ruskeat Tytöt explains in the excerpt below why people of color need to practice self-care. She shares a free how-to guide for artists to read online and download. Self-care is defined as any action to preserve or better one’s health. The general interpretation seems to culminate in…
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New Year, New Feel, New Chances, Same Dreams. Fresh Starts. Quote – Anonymous New Years Cover Gif Courtesy of: alonoak.myportfolio.com/
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In the Midst of a Beautiful Chaos, Life is Still Good As a child, my mother took me to museums on a regular basis. I grew up to discover that one space that she was unaware of… or should I say she was not given privy to visit because no museum attendants had the audacity…
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