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 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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From the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission: RESEARCH | Are you a community member, student, professor, artist or independent scholar engaged in studying some aspect of Gullah Geechee culture or land use? In January 2018, the Commission will begin convening a free, monthly conference call designed to help facilitate your research and creative work in…
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From Brainpickings: Article Excerpt By Maria Popova Achebe begins by defining an aesthetic as “those qualities of excellence which culture discerns from its works of art” and argues that our standards for this excellence are mutable — constantly changing, in a dynamic interaction with our social, cultural, and political needs: Aesthetic cannot be fixed, immutable.…
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