ART BYE | REWIND – REVISIT – 2022

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.



  • From African American Vintage Genealogy: African American Genealogy Virtual Workshop Series, designed by the African American Vintage Genealogy Project. Workshop is facilitated by an accredited librarian and genealogy curator, kYmberly Keeton, M.L.S., DBA. All information collected by our facilitator is strictly confidential. Details: Learn how to search for your African American ancestors in this introductory…

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  • From the Founder & Chief Digital Curator @ ART | library deco: ART | library deco is an independent  African American digital art library, owned and operated by bookista media group. The creative multimedia production company recently debuted its website earlier this month.  bookista now has launched its online boutique entitled, “original.” The online boutique…

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  • From the Met Free Publications: Book: Art and Oracle: African Art and Rituals of Divination Acknowledgments Director’s Foreword Philippe de Montebello Introduction Alisa LaGamma Map of Sub-Saharan Africa John Pemberton III Catalogue Oracular Sculpture: Figurative Divination Instruments Visual Metaphors: Ifa Divination Instruments Dynamic Devices: Kinetic Oracles Visual Commentaries: Sets of Divination Signs Invoking the Spirits: Musical…

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  • From the Los Angeles Public Library:   Discussion Description: An interactive community conversation with Kevin Powell: activist, writer, public speaker and host of the podcast “One on One with Kevin Powell”. Kevin is also the co-founder of BK Nation, the author of 13 books, including his autobiography The Education of Kevin Powell: A Boy’s Journey…

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  • From the African American Genealogy Project: The African American Genealogy project, curating memories for generations to come… has designed a monthly workshop series for life-long learners. Each workshop features a comprehensive self-paced guided designed and curated by an accredited professional librarian to use during workshops and are free when you register. For those that are…

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  • From Hood Museum of Art @ Dartmouth: Exhibition On View | JUNE 08, 2018, THROUGH SEPTEMBER 02, 2018   Stories take center stage in Toyin Ojih Odutola’s drawings. She catches her characters at quiet moments captured from otherwise rich and complex lives. Short on specifics and long on allusion, the narratives she evokes suggest a…

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  • From the Louisiana Channel | Videos on the arts, featuring the artists: “Where am I in this story?” Watch artists such as Wangechi Mutu, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and Chimamanda Adichie discuss how black people are (mis-)represented in today’s society and culture. Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (b. 1977) discusses the narrow perception of beauty in African…

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  • WRITING FOR ACTIVISTS A FREE VIRTUAL MASTERCLASS WITH CHARLENE CARRUTHERS Wednesday May 2nd, at 6pm CDT. Storytelling is one of the most powerful tools we have. Right now, far too many of the stories about important social issues are being told by people who aren’t on the ground. With over 10 years as a community…

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  • From The Museum of Contemporary Photography: Jennifer Scott will lead a discussion with D.Denenge Duyst-Akpem and Ingrid LaFleur on Afrofuturist themes in contemporary art and how they inform artistic practice in photography and other mediums. Jennifer Scott is director and chief curator of the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum at the University of Illinois at Chicago. D. Denenge…

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