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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“I am seized by two contradictory feelings: there is so much beauty in the world it is incredible that we are ever miserable for a moment; there is so much shit in the world that it is incredible we are ever happy for a moment.” — Zadie Smith
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Visit the Following Events for Black International Women’s History Month featuring the following: Visions of Abolition: Black Women’s Fight to End Mass Incarceration black feminist night school The-Feminist-Art-of-Harlem-A-Celebration-of-Remarkable-Women-Webinar Celebrating Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower The Remix: Hip Hop X Fashion | Conversation With Director Lisa Cortés Art Image, Public Domain
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From the Minneapolis Institute of Art: L’Merchie Frazier is a fiber artist, quilter, historian, innovator, poet, and holographer. According to Frazier, “This exhibition continues my work and conversations, concerned with equity and justice, called The Quilted Chronicles and its Target Series. It examines the lives and legacies of African-descended people, including children and their communities across centuries of memory, places,…
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Cover image: Still from Ariel (1975) directed by Zora Lathan, Courtesy of the Women’s History Department @ The Smithsonian.
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“Art is the one place we all turn to for solace. We turn to it constantly, whether you are listening to music, or pop in a film; you want to escape reality, and if you thinking deeply, you want to engage in art in a complex way. Art allows us to navigate the more complicated…
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The Soul of Clementine Hunter Clementine Hunter was born in December 1886 into a Louisiana Creole family at Hidden Hill Plantation near Cloutierville, in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. The African American self-taught folk artist lived on the Melrose Plantation the majority of her life. She never learned how to read or write. The artist began collecting brushes and paints left…
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