NATIONAL POETRY MONTH 2024
Take a moment to rewind and catch up on the latest updates in the art library – now archived.
Get a free Official National Poetry Month Poster. Featuring artwork by Jack Wong, and lines from “blessing the boats” by Lucille Clifton.
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ART Event | Ain’t I A Woman? A Virtual Workshop Series for African American Women
African American Women Workshop Series About this Event HopeWorks’ Women’s Circle Program is excited to host a seven-session workshop series via Zoom to explore imbalances of power and the spirit of revolution through poetry, music, visual arts, literature, theatre, history, ethnography, and philosophy. The sessions will be interactive, with guest speakers, and artists. Topics will…
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ART Rotation | VINTAGE: BLACK PUBLIC DOMAIN
Art work in this presentation, courtesy of the public domain.
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ART Read | Zadie Smith’s “What Do We Want History to Do For Us”
From ART | library deco: Dive into acclaimed novelist Zadie Smith’s NY Times Review of Books essay, “What Do We Want History to Do to Us?” In this essay, Smith considers the questions asked by Kara Walker’s art and confronts what the images say about race, history, art and the legacy of slavery in the United States.…
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ART Course | FREE Online Children’s Expressive Art Summer Course
FREE Online Children’s Expressive Art Summer Course Every Wednesday through August 19 at 11am until noon Creating art is a fun and natural way for children to express themselves. Making art helps us feel engaged and connected to one another. It can give us an outlet for our feelings and even gives us hope and…
Cover Image Courtesy, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. (1893). Phillis Wheatley Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-7329-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
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