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 ARTlibrarydeco: Prince Rogers Nelson [b. June 7, 1958 – April 21, 2016] was an African-American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and humanitarian, philanthropist and actor. Read, Listen and Watch: Bio | Music Tracklist | Prince Roger Nelson’s Full Interview with Larry King Image Credits: Google.com
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From The McKenna Museum of African American Art: Exhibit Runs Through May 21, 2016 McKenna Museum of African American Art | New Orleans, LA Curator | Jennifer Williams Vitus Shell’s paintings encompass a depth and intensity usually displayed in the work of artists far past his age. While a student at MCA, the Monroe, La.,
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From High Museum of Art Atlanta: The Rise of Sneaker Culture June 11, 2016-August 14, 2016 This exhibition includes 155 sneakers and follows the evolution of the sneaker from its origins in the mid-nineteenth century to its role in the present day as a status symbol of urban culture and marker of masculine identity. Originating
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From the St. Louis NAACP: Call to Artists: Request for Qualifications St. Louis City NAACP Announces Artist Request for Qualifications (RFQ) for Sculpture Honoring Civil Rights Leader Frankie Muse Freeman The St. Louis City Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is seeking an artist or artist team to design,
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From The Museum of Fine Arts Houston: About the exhibition: Jan 24, 2016 – Sep 25, 2016 Statements: African American Art from the Museum’s Collection is the latest in a series of focused installations highlighting unique areas of strength in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Featuring artists who have shaped the course
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From samson gallery: Press Release “Being Imperceptible” Art Exhibit: April 1 – May 28, 2016 RADCLIFFE BAILEY’S work collectively builds an alternate history of transatlantic slave narratives, accounts and histories of culture, science, and art making; histories that ask the perennial ‘what if’ questions that haunt human history. How we process stolen legacies, devalued humans, unrecognized aesthetic
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From Culture Type: AN INFLUENTIAL FIGURE IN THE ART WORLD, Thelma Golden, director and chief curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem is expanding her institutional reach to the West Coast. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) announced the election of three new members to its board of trustees today, including Golden. Caroline
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From the Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston: Jennie C. Jones: Compilation is a mid career survey spanning 10 years of this conceptual artist, painter, sonic artist and sculptor’s career through two site specific installations, a mural, works on paper, paintings, sculpture and sound. The exhibition will also include a listening room / theater for her sound works and
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From Black Art in America: The Tyler, Texas Black Film Collection is comprised of film shorts, features and newsreels produced between 1935 and 1956. “The African-American films include comedies, dramas, news, and musical performances, and were made outside the Hollywood system by pioneering directors and producers such as Oscar Micheaux, Spencer Williams, and William Alexander”.
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From The New York Times: Unpublished Black History By RACHEL L. SWARNS, DARCY EVELEIGH and DAMIEN CAVE Revealing moments in black history, with unpublished photos from The New York Times’s archives. Every day during Black History Month, we will publish at least one of these photographs online, illuminating stories that were never told
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