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 Yale University Art Gallery: Chicago-based interdisciplinary artist Jefferson Pinder creates performances, videos, and objects that challenge viewers to think critically about historical and contemporary social issues in America. His dynamic, experimental videos feature minimalist performances that convey narrative through movement, with music often advancing the story line. Part of the series Inertia Cycle, in which…
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From the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art: Deborah Roberts creates visually arresting collages that encourage important conversations about girlhood, vulnerability, body image, popular culture, self-image, and the dysfunctional legacy of colorism. Combining found photographs, painting, and drawing, she examines the weight that society places on Black girls. “Deborah Roberts: The Evolution of Mimi,” an…
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From ART | library deco: The editorial team decided to put together a quick listing of resources for you to reboot your genealogy searches this year. We have found two excellent FREE archived webinars available for viewing and to add to your resource archive. In like manner, we have more resources available that you might…
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From the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art: Date: Saturday, February 3, 2018 from 10 am – 5:30 pm Celebrate the opening of Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power. This symposium features exhibition artists and curators who will join us for an insightful round of conversation reflecting on art, politics, music, and…
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From MIT OpenCourseWare: Course Description: Black Matters: Introduction to Black Studies This class is an interdisciplinary survey that explores the experiences of people of African descent through the overlapping approaches of history, literature, anthropology, legal studies, media studies, performance, linguistics, and creative writing. It connects the experiences of African Americans and of other American minorities,…
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From the Museum of Arts and Design: The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) announces the opening of Derrick Adams: Sanctuary, the artist’s first major museum exhibition in New York. Presented in an installation designed by the artist, the exhibition comprises fifty works of mixed-media collage, assemblage on wood panels, and large-scale sculpture that reimagine safe destinations…
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From The Association of African American Museums (AAAM): The Association of African American Museums (AAAM) has reached a milestone: 40 years of gathering the black museums field together for advocacy, professional development, and collaboration. Hosted by the Hampton University Museum, marking its 150thanniversary, the 40th annual conference of AAAM will be held in Hampton, Virginia, August 8-11, 2018. The conference will…
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From ARTNEWS (ARCHIVE): “The Studio Museum in Harlem, a home for the evolving black esthetic” By Jean Bergantino Grillo October 1973 Paralleling the growth of black identity in the arts throughout the late 1960s, the Studio Museum in Harlem was established in September, 1968, pledged to give the newly discovered—and in some cases rediscovered—poets, painters…
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From the Baltimore Museum of Art | BMA Blog: Artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby invited art enthusiasts inside her creative process the same day her new exhibition, Front Room: Njideka Akunyili Crosby | Counterparts, opened at The Baltimore Museum of Art. On the heels of being named a 2017 MacArthur Award winner, Crosby sat down with BMA Senior Curator of…
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From The Billie Holiday Theatre and RestorationART: The Billie Holiday Theatre and RestorationART present the New York Premiere of A Small Oak Tree Runs Red written by Brooklyn’s own LeKethia Dalcoe, directed by renowned actor and director Harry Lennix. To commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the 1918 holocaust lynchings of eleven African Americans, A Small…
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