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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#freebooks: Art and Oracle: African Art and Rituals of Divination
From the Met Free Publications: Book: Art and Oracle: African Art and Rituals of Divination Acknowledgments Director’s Foreword Philippe de Montebello Introduction Alisa LaGamma Map of Sub-Saharan Africa John Pemberton III Catalogue Oracular Sculpture: Figurative Divination Instruments Visual Metaphors: Ifa Divination Instruments Dynamic Devices: Kinetic Oracles Visual Commentaries: Sets of Divination Signs Invoking the Spirits: Musical…
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Event: A FREE Interactive Community Conversation with Kevin Powell
From the Los Angeles Public Library: Discussion Description: An interactive community conversation with Kevin Powell: activist, writer, public speaker and host of the podcast “One on One with Kevin Powell”. Kevin is also the co-founder of BK Nation, the author of 13 books, including his autobiography The Education of Kevin Powell: A Boy’s Journey…
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Genealogy: Now Available, “vintage black genealogy, vol.1” Download Today!
From the African American Genealogy Project: The African American Genealogy project, curating memories for generations to come… has designed a monthly workshop series for life-long learners. Each workshop features a comprehensive self-paced guided designed and curated by an accredited professional librarian to use during workshops and are free when you register. For those that are…
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Watch: 6 Artists On Black Identity
From the Louisiana Channel | Videos on the arts, featuring the artists: “Where am I in this story?” Watch artists such as Wangechi Mutu, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and Chimamanda Adichie discuss how black people are (mis-)represented in today’s society and culture. Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (b. 1977) discusses the narrow perception of beauty in African…
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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