NATIONAL POETRY MONTH 2024
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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 Call: 13th Annual African American Fiber Art Exhibit: BLACK GOLD
From The North Charleston Cultural Arts Department: Where & When North Charleston City Hall, 1st & 2nd floors 2500 City Hall Lane, North Charleston, SC 29406 Free admission & parking Viewing times: May 1-June 21, 2019; 8:00am-7:00pm daily Description African American fiber artists from across the nation are invited to participate in the 13th Annual…
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Virtual Tour: Inside Brazil’s Museu Nacional, The Collection Before the Fire in 2018
From Google Arts & Culture: About Virtual Tour “You can take a virtual tour of the highlights of the Museu Nacional as it was here, a tour that of course includes a visit with the museum’s prized possession: the 12,000-year old Luzia, the oldest skeleton found in the Americas, whom you can see just as…
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Books: TASCHEN’s art catalog (new edition) is a massive 500-page edition that showcases the life and works of Jean-Michel Basquiat
From TASCHEN: Description IN A NUTSHELL Look closely at the complex signs and scribbles of Jean-Michel Basquiat, whose paintings today retain the same freshness and validity as in the New York of the 1980s. This monograph in size XXL brings together exquisite reproductions of the artist’s most outstanding works, accompanied by texts by the editor…
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View: Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection, Cornell University Library DIGITAL COLLECTIONS
From Cornell University Library DIGITAL COLLECTIONS: PERSUASIVE CARTOGRAPHY …
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View: “A Great Day in Harlem,” Photo by Art Kane
From Open Culture: Sixty years ago, Art Kane assembled one of the largest groups of jazz greats in history. No, it wasn’t an all-star big band, but a meeting of veteran legends and young upstarts for the iconic photograph known as “A Great Day in Harlem.” Fifty-seven musicians gathered outside a brownstone at 17 East…
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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