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 Talk: Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor Symposium
From the Smithsonian American Art Museum (8th and F Streets, NW): Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor is the first major retrospective ever organized for an artist born into slavery, and the most comprehensive look at Bill Traylor’s work to date. Bill Traylor (ca. 1853–1949) is regarded today as one of the most important…
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Exhibition : The Sweet Spot, Clark Atlanta University Art Museum
From Clark Atlanta University Art Museum: Exhibition : The Sweet Spot Alfred Conteh | Sculptor, Painter & Mixed-Media Artist This two-part exhibition revisits Alfred Conteh’s Two Fronts and Tetanus series. Conteh’s works are inspired by daily life in areas of Atlanta where mostly African Americans reside. His landscape paintings explore the notion of freedom in…
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Archive: Omar Ibn Said, Collection
From Omar Ibn Said Collection: About Collection The Omar Ibn Said Collection consists of 42 digitized documents in both English and Arabic, including an 1831 manuscript in Arabic on “The Life of Omar Ibn Said,” a West African slave in America, which is the centerpiece of this unique collection of texts. Some of the manuscripts…
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Archive: The Black Gospel Music Restoration Project | Royce-Darden Collection
From Black Gospel Music Restoration Project: About Collection The purpose of the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project (BGMRP) is to identify, acquire, preserve, record and catalogue the most at-risk music from the black gospel music tradition. This collection will primarily contain 78s, 45s, LPs, and the various tape formats issued in the United States and…
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View: Black Memorabilia Documentary
From Independent Lends (PBS): Independent Lens Presents: Black Memorabilia Season 20 Episode 10 | 55m 40s The odd and unexpected places where collectibles from America’s troubled racial history are made, bought, sold, and reclaimed. Aired: 02/04/19 | Expires: 03/07/19 | Rating: NR | Video has closed captioning. View Documentary: https://www.pbs.org/video/black-memorabilia-m1pqxj/
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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