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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Research: GETTY RESEARCH INSTITUTE LAUNCHES AFRICAN AMERICAN ART HISTORY INITIATIVE AND WILL ACQUIRE ARCHIVE OF LOS ANGELES ARTIST BETYE SAAR
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SEPTEMBER| 2018 LOS ANGELES – The Getty Research Institute (GRI) announced the establishment of the African American Art History Initiative with the acquisition of the archive of world-renowned artist Betye Saar (American, b. 1926). The African American Art History Initiative is an ambitious program to establish the Getty Research Institute as a…
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Roots: FREE National Archives Virtual Genealogy Fair 2018
Media Release: October 24, 2018 – Save the date! Sixth Annual Virtual Genealogy Fair Every year, the National Archives hosts a virtual Genealogy Fair via live webcast on YouTube. The sessions offer family history research tools on Federal records for all skill levels. Thousands of family historians participate in the live event. As a virtual attendee,…
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Event: Solidary & Solitary: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection @ SNITE Museum of ART
From Snite Museum of Art: O’Shaughnessy Galleries Through December 15, 2018 Drawing on the Joyner/Giuffrida Collection, this exhibition celebrates Modern and contemporary artists of African descent, many of whom were historically overlooked by collectors, critics, scholars, galleries, and museums. A central theme is the power of abstract art as a profound political choice and as…
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Exhibition: “Birmingham’s Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing, September 15, 1963”
Media Release: The Library of Congress wishes to bring to your attention a new agile case display “Birmingham’s Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing, September 15, 1963.” This exhibit memorializes that traumatic event that took place fifty-five years ago, when four young girls were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan while attending Sunday school. The victims…
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Exhibition: Beyond Borders: Global Africa, at the University of Michigan Museum of Art
From the University of Michigan Museum of Art: Bringing together paintings, photographs, sculpture and installations created in Africa, Europe and the United States from the 19th to the 21st centuries, Beyond Borders: Global Africa features approximately 40 works of art drawn from UMMA’s African art collection and from private and public holdings around the world,…
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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