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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 The Portal to Texas History: History The first issue of Art Lies was published in 1994. Originally a quarterly journal covering the Houston arts community, Art Lies soon expanded to include statewide coverage and beyond, placing Texas artists, curators, scholars and critics in dialogue with their peers across the globe. Founded and rooted in…
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From Google: Google Doodle by Philadelphia-based guest artist Loveis Wise kicks off Black History Month by celebrating Sojourner Truth, a powerful advocate for justice and equality in the United States of America during the 19th century who paved the way for future generations. Born an enslaved person in Ulster County, New York around 1797, Isabella…
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From the Museum of the African Diaspora: Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) presents Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem On View thru April 14, 2019 (San Francisco, CA)— The Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco will be the inaugural venue for Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum…
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From the Smithsonian American Art Museum (8th and F Streets, NW): Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor is the first major retrospective ever organized for an artist born into slavery, and the most comprehensive look at Bill Traylor’s work to date. Bill Traylor (ca. 1853–1949) is regarded today as one of the most important…
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From Clark Atlanta University Art Museum: Exhibition : The Sweet Spot Alfred Conteh | Sculptor, Painter & Mixed-Media Artist This two-part exhibition revisits Alfred Conteh’s Two Fronts and Tetanus series. Conteh’s works are inspired by daily life in areas of Atlanta where mostly African Americans reside. His landscape paintings explore the notion of freedom in…
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From Omar Ibn Said Collection: About Collection The Omar Ibn Said Collection consists of 42 digitized documents in both English and Arabic, including an 1831 manuscript in Arabic on “The Life of Omar Ibn Said,” a West African slave in America, which is the centerpiece of this unique collection of texts. Some of the manuscripts…
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From Black Gospel Music Restoration Project: About Collection The purpose of the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project (BGMRP) is to identify, acquire, preserve, record and catalogue the most at-risk music from the black gospel music tradition. This collection will primarily contain 78s, 45s, LPs, and the various tape formats issued in the United States and…
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From Independent Lends (PBS): Independent Lens Presents: Black Memorabilia Season 20 Episode 10 | 55m 40s The odd and unexpected places where collectibles from America’s troubled racial history are made, bought, sold, and reclaimed. Aired: 02/04/19 | Expires: 03/07/19 | Rating: NR | Video has closed captioning. View Documentary: https://www.pbs.org/video/black-memorabilia-m1pqxj/
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From Soul! or SOUL!: Original video from SOUL! | Taped in London, November 1971 View Conversation Online Yolande Cornelia “Nikki” Giovanni, Jr.(born June 7, 1943) is an American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator. Giovanni gained initial fame in the late 1960s as one of the foremost authors of the Black Arts Movement. Influenced by…
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ART News: Black History Month Opening Exhibit & Reception Moving out, Moving in, Moving up: The story of Black migration and immigration in Prince George’s County On View Thru February 28, 2019 About Exhibition: Migration has been a defining characteristic of the Black experience in the United States since the arrival of the first enslaved…
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