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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Art does not succeed in time by being more personal, different, or even original than any other. It succeeds by remaining intact, and…containing within its form ideas and associations, which can continue to stimulate people who view it. — Artist’s statement (1967), Richard Hunt Peggy Cooper Cafritz was born on April 7, 1947, in Mobile,…
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From the Contemporary Art Museum of St. Louis: The Re-Evolving Door to the Moundverse invites viewers to encounter the visual narratives of Trenton Doyle Hancock. Through painting, sculpture, and video, Hancock has created a mythological world, one in which an ongoing epic battle rages between good and evil. Raised in a religious home in Paris,…
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From the McNay Art Museum: What the Kelley Collection demonstrates is how African American collectors have emerged over the last 40 years and become important forces in the art world and have an impact on the critical, curatorial, and market positions of African American artists.—Lowery Stokes Sims, former director of the Studio Museum in Harlem…
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From the Davison Art Center at Wesleyan University: The Davison Art Center at Wesleyan University is pleased to present the exhibition Reclaiming the Gaze, a dynamic survey of African American prints and photographs from the 1930s to the present. These striking works range from the expressionist style of Hale Woodruff to the photographs of the…
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From the Emily Lowe Gallery: Romare Bearden: Storyteller @ Emily Lowe Gallery | Through August 17, 2018 The narrative themes of Romare Bearden’s work spanned historical, political, and religious topics. Through his innovative works of art, Bearden communicated his ideas and thoughts about everyday African-American life in 20th century America. The exhibition includes prints in a…
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From Loyola University Museum of Art: Activist-artist Tonika Lewis Johnson’s visually stunning photographs document daily life in Englewood. Johnson tenderly challenges the sensationalized, damage-centered narrative of the Chicago South Side neighborhood in which she was raised. Her images celebrate the resilience of urban Black culture in Englewood by portraying levity, triumph, joy and normalcy. In…
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From NLA Designs and Visual Art Art is the spark, the illumination which is socially significant for it brings about understanding. – Gerard Sekoto Gerard Sekoto was born 9 September 1913 in Botshabelo, a German missionary station (Lutheran Church) for the Pedi community in Middleburg, Transvaal. He had a strict Christian upbringing and his family…
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From “No More Auction Block” by Paul Robeson & The Library of Congress: About this Collection Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers’ Project…
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From the Library of Congress: TITLE: Life of a Poet: Dawn Lundy Martin SPEAKER: Ron Charles, Dawn Lundy Martin EVENT DATE: 2017/10/23 RUNNING TIME: 66 minutes TRANSCRIPT: View Transcript DESCRIPTION: An in-depth discussion with poet Dawn Lundy Martin, covering her entire career and the major events that have shaped her work. Watch Interview: http://www.loc.gov/webcasts
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From the Philadelphia Museum of Art: “I want my clothes to make you smile”—that was the goal of late African American designer Patrick Kelly in creating his bold, bright, and joyful creations. Kelly achieved this on the streets, nightclubs, and runways of New York, Paris, and beyond in the heady, inventive, and often-subversive urban milieu…
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