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 ART | library deco: Visit this comprehensive listing of resources for artists in various disciplines. Feel free to suggest a link to be added to this list. CUE Art Foundation: http://cueartfoundation.org/covid19-artist-resources National Endowment for the Arts: https://www.arts.gov/covid-19-resources-for-artists-and-arts-organizations Americans for the Arts: https://www.americansforthearts.org/by-topic/disaster-preparedness/coronavirus-covid-19-resource-and-response-center Grant Station: https://grantstation.com/covid-19-related-funding Arts And Science: https://www.artsandscience.org/ Society of American Archivists: https://www2.archivists.org/resources-for-response-to-covid-19-health-crisis…
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Featured Post Now Collecting Experiences Credit: Letter written by James Baldwin to his sister. Public Domain, Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of The Baldwin Family
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From Open Culture: A pioneer of “Afrofuturism,” bandleader Sun Ra emerged from a traditional swing scene in Alabama, touring the country in his teens as a member of his high school biology teacher’s big band. While attending Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University, he had an out-of-body experience during which he was transported into outer space. As…
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About Hair Love: Hair Love is a 2019 American animated short film written and directed by Matthew A. Cherry and co-produced with Karen Rupert Toliver. It follows the story of a man who must do his daughter’s hair for the first time, and it features Issa Rae as a voice of the mother. The film was produced after a 2017 Kickstarter campaign, and it was…
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From Virginia Museum of Arts: Exhibition features the work of 15 Kamoinge Workshop members and explores their role in 20th-century art history Richmond, Virginia — The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts will highlight the work of a remarkable group of African American photographers in the exhibition Working Together: Louis Draper and the Kamoinge Workshop. On display in…
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From the Phillips Collection: Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition presents works by African American artists of the 20th and 21st centuries together with examples by the early 20th century European artists with whom they engaged. This exhibition explores the connections and frictions around modernism in the work of artists such as…
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From National Museum of African American History and Culture The Smithsonian has launched its Open Access Initiative. Images of objects from the NMAAHC collection are now available to view, download, and share through a CC0 license. ART | library viewed the new collection and chose the following artifact to curate in this issue: Title: DELEGATE PUBLISHED BY MelPat Associates, American, 1965 –…
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From the Newcomb Art Museum @ Tulane University Newcomb Art Museum has partnered with formerly incarcerated women, community organizations, stakeholders, and those directly impacted by the prison system to create the exhibition Per(Sister), which is intended to share the stories of currently and formerly incarcerated women in Louisiana, and shine a light on the myriad…
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From the International Center for Photography CONTACT HIGH: A Visual History of Hip-Hop explores four decades of photography, from the late 1970s to today, documenting a revolution not just in music, but in politics, race relations, fashion, and culture. The images—many of them displayed alongside contact sheets from the session—give us a rare glimpse into the…
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From PBS Newshour: Yamiche Alcindor is the White House correspondent for the PBS NewsHour, a role she began in January 2018. She often tells stories about the intersection of race and politics as well as fatal police encounters. Alcindor is also a contributor for NBC News and MSNBC often appearing on a number of shows…
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