NATIONAL POETRY MONTH 2024
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Art News: The Association of African American Museums is excited to announce plans for its 41st Annual Conference
From AAAM: The Association of African American Museums is excited to announce plans for its 41st Annual Conference, August 7-10, 2019 in Jackson, Mississippi. The theme of the Conference, Roots of Revolution: Reaching Back | Pushing Forward, signifies a chance to usefully look to our shared past to inform and empower the crafting of our futures amid challenging times. As…
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Opportunity: Academic Research, Digital Humanities, and Creative Study 2019 Fellowships Annouced
From The HistoryMakers: The HistoryMakers – the nation’s largest African American video oral history archive – invites applications for one of three sets of fellowships – Academic Research, Digital Humanities, and Creative Study – created from funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, for the period of Summer 2019 (April–September 2019). Applicant’s work must come out of their use of, and/or be…
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Another Year, African American Art 365
ART | library deco has an exciting year ahead and gladly would like for you to continue following our digital library, African American art platform. We look forward to our journey with you in 2019! Respectfully, ART | library deco, “sweet as the moment, went art went “pop” Become an ART library patron today!
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Transition: Roy Anthony Hargrove, Jazz Trumpeter (1968-2018)
The ART | library deco editorial team is saddened by the news that the great jazz trumpeter, Roy Hargrove transitioned on November 2, 2018. He was 49 years old. Obituary: Roy Hargrove was born on October 16, 1969 in Waco, Texas. Hargrove was the bandleader of the progressive group The RH Factor, which combined elements of jazz,…
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ArtNews: VMFA Announces New Internship Funded by Souls Grown Deep Foundation
From the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts: Fall/Winter 2018 New grant program supports undergraduate students of color Richmond, Virginia – The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is one of three U.S. art museums to participate in a new grant program supported by the Atlanta-based Souls Grown Deep Foundation. The program provides paid internships to undergraduate…
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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