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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Curating Notes Vol.2
Entering this new decade these words written by poet, Sonia Sonchaz, “The black artist is dangerous. Black art controls the ‘Negro’s’ reality, negates negative influences, and creates positive images,” will always resonate in mind as the definition of 2020. In the past four months, I have bore witness by the minute in quarantine (we are…
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ART Film: WHUT – ONLINE FILM SCREENING – East Lake Meadows
From WHUT Howard University Television: Join WHUT for a FREE ONLINE Film Screening of East Lake Meadows – A Public Housing Story by Ken Burns on June 4th 2020 In October of 1970, the Atlanta Housing Authority opened a public housing community on the edge of Atlanta called East Lake Meadows. Over the next 25…
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ART Music: The Library of Congress to Debut Citizen DJ Summer 2020
Coming Summer 2020 Free for For DJ’s to Remix: Introducing the Citizen Project by the Library of Congress
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ART Music | Nina Simone – Color Is A Beautiful Thing
From ART | library deco: Fans of Nina Simone will feel love from all corners of the universe with the newly released animated visual “Color Is A Beautiful Thing” featuring the musical genius’ work. The accomplished singer, civil rights leader, and mentor to many revisits themes about women, race, and inequities she sang about on…
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#freebooks: Part II, Ruth E. Carter’s Coloring Pages
From ART | library deco: The Academy Museum partnered with Academy Award®–winning costume designer Ruth E. Carter to debut her coloring illustrations. You are in a for a free treat! The pages are published weekly via the Academy Museum’s website and are free to download at your leisure. Download the second set released this week…
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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