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 Free Art Event This workshop will examine the foundation of the art form and what it means to be a cartoonist with a purpose! OUR ROOTS Cartoon Workshop with TAYO Fatunla October 28, 2021 4–5:30 p.m. (US Eastern Daylight Time) Ages: 12 and up Zoom webinar Discover the wonderful world of cartooning and animation…
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From the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art Nearly fifty years after the release of the feminist anthem “I Am Woman,” women still find their numbers underrepresented in politics, business, and museum collections. While this exhibition draws its name from the 1970s song, it highlights a more contemporary feminism that is not based on any…
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About Artist: Pamela Council is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist creating fountains for Black joy. Guided by material, cultural, and metaphysical quests, Council’s practice embodies a darkly humorous and inventive Afro-Americana camp aesthetic, BLAXIDERMY. Through this lens, Council uses sculpture, print, design, architecture, writing, and performance to shed light on under-examined narratives, and to make…
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Latest from ART | library deco Art Cover Image: Courtesy of Smithsonian Museum of African ArtSusanne Wenger (Olorisha Adunni)1915–2009, Graz, AustriaWorked in Oshogbo, NigeriaUntitled1960–69Screen print on paperGift of the Collection of William and Mattye Reed, 2011-11-2Title of Art Work: Visual piety.
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CALIFORNIA AFRICAN AMERICN MUSUEM John Jennings and the Visual World of Sanford Biggers: Codeswitch John Jennings, a best-selling author, graphic novelist, curator, and professor, is widely known for his graphic novel adaptations of Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Kindred. For Sanford Biggers: Codeswitch, now on view at CAAM, Jennings collaborated with the artist on an accompanying graphic…
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Featured The K-12 Archives Education Institute (AEI) is a free program designed to introduce primary sources to K-12 teachers as viable and practical resources for classroom instruction while helping archivists and special collections professionals identify ways to connect these materials with Common Core and state requirements. Primary source materials are drawn from the rich collections…
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IN THE STACKS Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.— Federico Garcia Lorca
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University of Kansas’ The Project on the History of Black Writing (HBW) Presents: The Legacy of Zora Neale Hurston and Southern Women WritersNovember 5, 2021 at 12:00 CDT A conversation with Tayari Jones, the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Creative Writing at Emory University and New York Times best-selling author of four novels set in the…
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About this event This In-Person event will take place under the Tent at Schenley Plaza. Capacity is limited to 250. Masks Required! E-Tickets required for entry. Event Date: October 6th, 6:30 PM EST, Schenley Plaza Tent. Center for African American Poetry and Poetics (CAAPP) is devoting a week to intimacy in Black creative practice at a historical crux. How do…
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