ART BYE | REWIND – REVISIT – 2022

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.



  • From The Charles R. Wright Museum of African American History: Say It Loud: Art, History, Rebellion is a two-part exhibition that commemorates the 1960s rebellions, observes the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Detroit Rebellion, and compares the uprisings of the past to the upheavals that shocked our nation in the 21st century. The first part of Say…

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  • From The Stony Island Arts Bank: The Stony Island Arts Bank is a hybrid gallery, media archive, library and community center – and a home for Rebuild’s archives and collections. Designed by William Gibbons Uffendell and built in 1923, the bank at 68th Street and Stony Island Avenue was once a vibrant community savings and…

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  • From Transition Magazine: Born in Africa and bred in the diaspora, Transition is a unique forum for the freshest, most compelling ideas from and about the black world. Since its founding in Uganda in 1961, the magazine has kept apace of the rapid transformation of the African Diaspora and has remained a leading forum of intellectual debate.…

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  • From the Museum of Fine Arts Houston: This inspiring new documentary celebrates the life, work, and lasting cultural impact of jazz artist John Coltrane. Chasing Trane follows the saxophonist’s story from his childhood in the Jim Crow South to early music gigs; young marriage and fatherhood; struggles with drugs and alcohol; and, finally, to his…

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  • From Clark Atlanta University: Clark Atlanta University (CAU) celebrates the release of the new Tupac Shakur film, All Eyez On Me. The movie, set for nationwide release Friday, June 16 on what would have been his 46th birthday, depicts the life and legacy of Shakur from his younger years in New York City to becoming…

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  • From The African American Museum, Dallas The Southwest Black Art Show was created to present an exemplary experience for artists, collectors, educators, fine art professionals, and admirers of black art. The SWBAS is committed to the exclusive presentation of original art produced by artists of African-American and African descent. Our goal is to make the…

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  • From REGINALD F. LEWIS MUSEUM: Sons is more than a photographic study of the modern African American male. It is also an examination of how African American men are perceived. The exhibition asks visitors to compare their perceptions to reality, journeying through four parts of the gallery. Section one is a brief introduction, followed by “Perceptions,”…

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  • From Kansas City Art Institute:  In association with Charlotte Street Foundation’s Every Street is Charlotte Street program, the KCAI Crossroads Gallery: Center for Contemporary Practice is pleased to present, Revolutionary Awakening features the work of Sonie Joi Thompson-Ruffin with Glenn North, poet, & filmmaker, Rodney M. Thompson. The exhibition features two series of works. The…

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  • From UCLA California Rare Book School (CAL-RBS): CalRBS OFFERS COURSE ON AFRICAN AMERICAN RESOURCES From August 7-11, 2017, California Rare Book School is offering a one-week, intensive course, “Developing & Administering Collections of African American Resources.” This course taught by Archives and Special Collections Consultant, Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty examines the development of African American archival, manuscript, art…

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  • From Tinney Contemporary: Tinney Contemporary is pleased to present The Prophet’s Library, a solo show of work by Wesley Clark. It marks his exciting return to the gallery since he was first introduced in 2015 as a participant in Topography, a groundbreaking group show curated by Fisk University’s Jamaal B. Sheats. Wesley Clark’s work focuses…

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