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 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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From ART | library deco: Join our editorial team for a night of self-awareness and artistic decor. Create your own ART VISION BOARD – 2018 Goal-Driven Canvas. Participants will provide their own found materials to design their vision for the year. The event will take place all day – you choose the location. We will…
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From ART | library deco: December 2017 ART | library deco Celebrates Opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture With Smithsonian Poster Exhibition The Smithsonian Institution opened its newest museum, the National Museum of African American History and Culture Sept. 24, 2016. The celebration continues and reaches beyond Washington, D.C., as ART…
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From American Masters: On March 11, 1959, Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway and changed the face of American theater forever. Depicting the limitations of the American dream through the lives of a black family on Chicago’s South Side, the play’s richly drawn characters and unprecedented subject matter attracted record crowds and earned…
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From ART | library deco: There are only 19 days left as of this moment to do something creative that you set aside in 2017. You can get a lot done if you put forth the effort. Now more than every you have to be about your hustle – it can save you from going…
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From the Community Artists Collective: About: The Jubilee Quilt Circle provides opportunities to share stories, memories, traditions and values as well as skills with interested people of all ages. Historically quilting has provided community strengthening and social times for the participants as they engaged in the practical endeavors of planning and making a functional and beautiful…
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From BBC World Service: Two librarians running vastly different libraries in South Africa and the United States share their passion for books and their secrets for inspiring children to read. Carla Hayden runs the biggest library in the world, the Library of Congress. As the first woman and first African American to take on the role…
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From the Saint Louis Art Museum: ST. LOUIS, Dec. 4, 2017—The Saint Louis Art Museum today announced an extraordinary collection gift from New Jersey-based collector Ronald Maurice Ollie and his wife Monique McRipley Ollie that adds significant depth and breadth to the museum’s holdings of works by African-American artists. Ronald Ollie grew up in St.…
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