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 The Public Domain: Black Girl is a 1972 film directed by former actor, playwright and social activist Ossie Davis. The film is based on the off-Broadway successful play, Black Girl, by J. E. Franklin and tells the story of young girl’s desire to become a dancer despite being a high school dropout and facing…
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From Adelphi University: Connect > Converse > Change Human Library Adelphi is a place where difficult questions are expected, appreciated, and answered. Readers check out real human “books” of different ethnicities, beliefs, and experiences for conversations about their lives. Adelphi University Libraries and The Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County invites you to challenge stereotypes and prejudices through…
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Visit our new space inside the digital art library: A Curated Syllabi. Delve into the writings of critically acclaimed and best-selling author, Zadie Smith. In this issue, A Curated Syllabi features a literary mind-map about a writer that is dedicated to her craft and is a social activist – fighting for libraries! The curated syllabi is designed for…
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From the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, in conjunction with the Center for the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis: From the success of The Crisis’s annual children’s number emerged The Brownies’ Book, a monthly magazine specifically written for African American children. It was the first sustained effort…
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From Black Girls Code: You’re invited to a screening of A Wrinkle in Time! Black Girls CODE is hosting a screening of A Wrinkle in Time, written and directed by Ava DuVernay, for our Bay Area tech divas and their families to attend! Tickets to this screening are free, but first come, first serve! If you do not arrive…
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From The Billie Holiday Theatre at RestorationART: As Black women writers, we are seeing an explosion of #metoos across our media outlets. We are participants, sharing our complex and varied narratives of harassment, abuse, assault, and overall crimes against our bodies. But we are also observers, watching the nation respond to the narratives of White privileged…
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Brushes and paints are all I have To speak the music in my soul… ―Gwendolyn Bennett Born: July 8, 1902, Giddings, TX Died: May 30, 1981, West Reading, PA Nationality: African American Period: Harlem Renaissance Education: Pratt Institute, Columbia University ——- Gwendolyn B. Bennett was an African-American writer who contributed to Opportunity, which chronicled cultural advancements in Harlem. Though often overlooked, she herself made…
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WEBINARS Free and open to the public Creating a Research Plan: Tips from NEHGS Research Services Thursday, March 15, 2018 3:00 – 4:00 PM EST Presented by Lindsay Fulton, Director of Research Services With all of the genealogical information at your fingertips today, it’s easy to become overwhelmed, go down research rabbit holes, and lose…
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From Open Culture: The Cover Art Archive, a joint project of the Internet Archive and MusicBrainz, an “open music encyclopedia that collects music metadata and makes it available to the public. The collection now numbers in the several hundred thousands—upwards of 800,000, according to its results counter—but some of the uploads are not yet complete…
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The wonderful thing about being an artist is that there is no end to creative expression. Painting is my life; my life is painting. — From “The Life and Art of Lois Mailou Jones”
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