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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Film Reel: View Short Film, ‘Hair Love’
About Hair Love: Hair Love is a 2019 American animated short film written and directed by Matthew A. Cherry and co-produced with Karen Rupert Toliver. It follows the story of a man who must do his daughter’s hair for the first time, and it features Issa Rae as a voice of the mother. The film was produced after a 2017 Kickstarter campaign, and it was…
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ART Exhibition: WORKING TOGETHER: LOUIS DRAPER AND THE KAMOINGE WORKSHOP
From Virginia Museum of Arts: Exhibition features the work of 15 Kamoinge Workshop members and explores their role in 20th-century art history Richmond, Virginia — The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts will highlight the work of a remarkable group of African American photographers in the exhibition Working Together: Louis Draper and the Kamoinge Workshop. On display in…
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Listen: RIFFS AND RELATIONS AUDIO TOUR STOP 1
From the Phillips Collection: Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition presents works by African American artists of the 20th and 21st centuries together with examples by the early 20th century European artists with whom they engaged. This exhibition explores the connections and frictions around modernism in the work of artists such as…
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ARTNews: Now Available, NMAAHC OPEN ACCESS Collection
From National Museum of African American History and Culture The Smithsonian has launched its Open Access Initiative. Images of objects from the NMAAHC collection are now available to view, download, and share through a CC0 license. ART | library viewed the new collection and chose the following artifact to curate in this issue: Title: DELEGATE PUBLISHED BY MelPat Associates, American, 1965 –…
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On View: Per(Sister): Incarcerated Women of Louisiana
From the Newcomb Art Museum @ Tulane University Newcomb Art Museum has partnered with formerly incarcerated women, community organizations, stakeholders, and those directly impacted by the prison system to create the exhibition Per(Sister), which is intended to share the stories of currently and formerly incarcerated women in Louisiana, and shine a light on the myriad…
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