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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From Open Culture: Article Written by Ted Mills Known as the Revolutionary Artist by his fellow Black Panthers and officially titled their Minister of Culture, Emory Douglas provided the striking visuals and designed the layout to the newspaper that bore the organization’s name when it premiered in 1967. In this short but insightful documentary by the outfit known as Dress Code, Douglas…
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From ART | library deco: Writer Essence Harden at Artsy.net interviews world-renowned African American art collector Arthur Lewis. She provides an intricate look and perspective about the Creative Director of UTA Fine Arts in Los Angeles, California’s, Black art collection and contributions to the visual arts world. Read more about Arthur Lewis’ journey in collecting…
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Best selling authors Isabel Wilkerson and Damon Tweedy share stories of resilience and triumph at the Austin African American Book Festival. New York Times bestselling authors Isabel Wilkerson and Dr. Damon Tweedy will head up the fourteenth annual Austin African American book festival. The event will be held on June 27, 10 a.m. to 2…
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From ART | library deco: In response to current events, Warner Bros. is offering free streaming rentals of its film “Just Mercy,” from the director Destin Daniel Cretton and starring Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Foxx. Based on a true story, the movie focuses on the life of the civil-rights attorney Bryan Stevenson (Michael B.…
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Now Available From Library Journal: Award-winning director/filmmaker Ava DuVernay has added resources for classrooms and independent study to her productions. DuVernay’s company ARRAYnow is launching an initiative that will offer free learning guides for students to accompany TV and film productions. The initiative, ARRAY101, was created in partnership with Participant, a media company “dedicated to entertainment that inspires audiences to engage…
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Entering this new decade these words written by poet, Sonia Sonchaz, “The black artist is dangerous. Black art controls the ‘Negro’s’ reality, negates negative influences, and creates positive images,” will always resonate in mind as the definition of 2020. In the past four months, I have bore witness by the minute in quarantine (we are…
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From WHUT Howard University Television: Join WHUT for a FREE ONLINE Film Screening of East Lake Meadows – A Public Housing Story by Ken Burns on June 4th 2020 In October of 1970, the Atlanta Housing Authority opened a public housing community on the edge of Atlanta called East Lake Meadows. Over the next 25…
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Coming Summer 2020 Free for For DJ’s to Remix: Introducing the Citizen Project by the Library of Congress
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From ART | library deco: Fans of Nina Simone will feel love from all corners of the universe with the newly released animated visual “Color Is A Beautiful Thing” featuring the musical genius’ work. The accomplished singer, civil rights leader, and mentor to many revisits themes about women, race, and inequities she sang about on…
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From ART | library deco: The Academy Museum partnered with Academy Award®–winning costume designer Ruth E. Carter to debut her coloring illustrations. You are in a for a free treat! The pages are published weekly via the Academy Museum’s website and are free to download at your leisure. Download the second set released this week…
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