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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Dear ART Guru: I hope all is well with you and that you are treating yourself well! I wanted to check in with my audience and share what I have been up to. During 2019, I had to take some time off to organize the first African American Genealogy Conference in Austin, Texas for [my]…
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Mike Henderson:Three Upcoming Exhibitions by Groundbreaking Bay Area Artist This fall marks an unprecedented opportunity for viewers to experience the work of pioneering African American artist Mike Henderson, whose paintings and films have been an integral part of the Bay Area art scene for over fifty years. Henderson, whose singular vision has…
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From The Blanton Museum of Art: The University of Texas at Austin is honored to be the home of twenty-three works by Charles White, one of the 20th century’s most accomplished draftsmen and influential art educators. This exhibition celebrates the artist’s remarkable career and legacy, made possible by the generous gift of artworks from Drs.…
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From ART_librarydeco Diahann Carroll transitioned today at the age of 84 years old. The pioneering African American actress, singer, and model was born on July 17, 1935, in the Bronx, New York City. In 1968, she became a national sensation in her role as “Julia” making her the first African American woman to star her…
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From George Washington Carver Museum, Cultural and Genealogy Center: Conversations with Contemporary Artists is a quarterly program of the George Washington Carver Museum, Cultural and Genealogy Center that highlights multi-disciplinary creatives working at the intersection of art and social change. The first activation of 2019 will honor New York-based, multi-disciplinary visual and performing artist Taja…
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From Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture: In celebration of National Library Workers Day, Schomburg curators, librarians, and archivists will display selections from our unparalleled collection of archival materials highlighting the influence of NYPL librarian Regina Anderson Andrews and Jean Blackwell Hutson, archivist, curator, and former chief librarian of the Schomburg Center. FIRST COME,…
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From FANDOM Comics Community: Before Storm, there was Butterfly. Butterfly, aka Marian Michaels, was a sultry Las Vegas cabaret singer by day and a superhero by night. The superheroine made her first comic appearance in 1971 in a supplemental issue of Hell-Rider #1. The Butterfly was the first Black Female Superheroine to be featured in…
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From American Art Museum: Details Think women artists deserve more recognition? It’s your chance to correct the historical record! Join SAAM and Art+Feminism, a campaign to improve coverage of feminism and the arts on Wikipedia, for a Wikipedia edit-a-thon. A special tour of remarkable women artists in SAAM’s collection kicks off the program, then learn…
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From Railroad Ties: “Six descendants of fugitive slaves and abolitionists come together in Brooklyn to discover more about their lineage. Documenting each person learning about their ancestors, and featuring renowned historian, Henry Louis Gates Jr., the film interweaves powerful personal moments with contextual historical anecdotes. The very human story of the Underground Railroad unfolds through…
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From Voices from the Gaps: About: Sarah Mapps Douglass (September 9, 1806 – September 8, 1882) was an African-American educator, abolitionist, writer, and public lecturer. Her painted images on her written letters may be the first or earliest surviving examples of signed paintings by an African-American woman. These paintings are contained within the Cassey Dickerson…
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