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 ALA.org In celebration of Black History Month, join author Cheryl Knott (“Not Free, Not for All: Public Libraries in the Age of Jim Crow”) and Civil Rights activist Geraldine Hollis (author of “Back to Mississippi”), along with artists Michael Crowell and Chapel Hill Library Director Susan Brown, for an engaging and educational conversation on
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From ART_library deco: Recently, I had the opportunity to create the book jacket for the Hip Hop Librarian Consortium’s first e-book bibliographic series, to be published later this month. Download the free book on March 24, 2017, here: http://www.hiphoplibrarianship.wordpress.com
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From Katherine-Kelly.com: ‘And Still I Rise’ Typographic Poster Poem by Maya Angelou This poster is an exploration in typographic voice. I was prompted with a body of text and was asked to choose and convey a voice for that piece of writing. After many rounds of exploration, I chose a Paula Sher inspired treatment. I
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From J. Paul Getty Trust The Board of Trustees of the J. Paul Getty Trust announced today that Pamela J. Joyner has joined the Getty’s Board of Trustees effective immediately. “We are so happy that Pamela J. Joyner is to join the Getty Board of Trustees,” said Maria Hummer-Tuttle, Board chair. “Her leadership in the
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Open Call for Audio Submissions The next intervention of BWA for BLM will take place at Project Row Houses in Houston, Texas opening March 24 and closing June 4. As part of Simone Leigh’s PRH residency, Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter will create site specific, multimedia art installations within all 7 houses. These
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From Library of Congress: Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden on March 22 will host a discussion with three dynamic leaders in the arts in celebration of Women’s History Month at the Library of Congress. “In Conversation with the Librarian of Congress: Leaders in the Arts, a Celebration of Women’s History Month” will feature Marin Alsop,
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From BBC Radio Book at Bedtime Series: Clarke Peters (The Wire, Treme) reads The Underground Railroad, the new novel by Colson Whitehead. As part of its Book at Bedtime series, the radio station is streaming audio of the novel, which imagines the titular railroad as a literal railway with tunnels and tracks beneath the soil
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The African American Art World in Twentieth-Century, Washington, DCA Wyeth Foundation for American Art Symposium Date: March 16 and 17 Time: 10:00 to 5:00 Location: East Building Auditorium, 6th & Constitution Ave NW, Washington, DC 20565 Speakers include Rhea L. Combs, Gwendolyn H. Everett, Paul Gardullo, Tuliza Fleming, Jacqueline Francis, Lauren Haynes, Amy Kirschke, Robert
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From American Masters (PBS): Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise About the Film Premiere date: February 21, 2017 First feature documentary on the author/activist includes exclusive interviews with Dr. Angelou, Oprah Winfrey, Common, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and others Distinctly referred to as “a redwood tree, with deep roots in American culture,” Dr. Maya Angelou
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From Essence.com Article By LATOYA CROSS, FEBRUARY 21, 2017 On the first day of a class trip to Spain, interdisciplinary visual artist Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle and a friend got lost in the red-light district of Madrid. “I was constantly assumed to be a prostitute because I looked the way that I looked,” Hinkle recalls. The experience
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