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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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From ART | library deco: Dive into acclaimed novelist Zadie Smith’s NY Times Review of Books essay, “What Do We Want History to Do to Us?” In this essay, Smith considers the questions asked by Kara Walker’s art and confronts what the images say about race, history, art and the legacy of slavery in the United States.…
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FREE Online Children’s Expressive Art Summer Course Every Wednesday through August 19 at 11am until noon Creating art is a fun and natural way for children to express themselves. Making art helps us feel engaged and connected to one another. It can give us an outlet for our feelings and even gives us hope and…
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“Souls of a Perserverant Generation,” a virtual exhibition featuring four Houston artists, opened at The Collective July 4. Photographers Amaechina Blot, Sinden Collier, Irene Reece and Jamie Robertson explore the beauty, pain and memory of Black ancestry while alluding to the future of the next generation. They ask themselves through their art if they will…
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New York, NY – July 2020 – Chefs and restaurateurs including Mashama Bailey, Aliyyah Baylor, Adrienne Cheatham, Nina Compton, Charles Gabriel, Carla Hall, Kwame Onwuachi, Melba Wilson, Tren’ness Woods-Black, Skai Young and Raymond Zamanta Mohan will headline a one- hour fundraiser special entitled Harlem Serves Up! supported by Humana airing on ABC7 New York on…
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ADIFF SUMMER VIRTUAL FESTIVAL! THE AFRICAN DIASPORA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL GOES VIRTUAL THIS SUMMER! Friday, July 24 to Thursday, July 30, 2020 In these times of pandemic and deep reflection around the human experience of people of color, the African Diaspora International Film Festival (ADIFF) is curating a selection of films to be offered online in…
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In 1965, James Baldwin entered the doors of Cambridge University and debated William F. Buckley in a sea of whiteness. He never wavered from his ideologies about Blackness, civil rights, and the state of America. The debate is an intricate look at two men from different worlds…one is in tune with what is taking place…
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I have created nothing really beautiful, really lasting, but if I can inspire one of these youngsters to develop the talent I know they possess, then my monument will be in their work. –Augusta Savage About Augusta Savage Augusta Savage (born Augusta Christine Fells; February 29, 1892 – March 27, 1962) was an American sculptor associated with the Harlem Renaissance. She…
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Octavia Butler’s Notes to Self …Butler reveals in an interview with The New York Times: When I began writing science fiction, when I began reading, heck, I wasn’t in any of this stuff I read. The only black people you found were occasional characters or characters who were so feeble-witted that they couldn’t manage anything, anyway. I…
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