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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Literary Art: Dallas Humanities Institute, Presents | A Different Perspective, Reading James Baldwin in Digital Age
From Cultural Front: During the month of December, Dr. Kenton Rambsy will offer a three-part class on writer and social critic James Baldwin at the Dallas Institute for Humanities. The course, “A Different Perspective: Reading James Baldwin in the Digital Age,” will draw on various online data sources to situate Baldwin’s life and works within…
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View Art: ‘Dancing People: Candombe (Personas bailando: [Candombe])’ by Pedro Figari
From the LACMA Public Domain: Curator’s Notes Dancing People: Candombe (Personas bailando: [Candome]) Artist: Pedro Figari (Uruguay, 1861-1938) Uruguay, circa 1920 Paintings Oil on board Frame: 29 1/2 × 35 1/2 × 3 1/2 in. (74.93 × 90.17 × 8.89 cm) Gift of Gregory Peck (M.91.162) Latin American Art This work depicts a candombe — a…
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ArtSeries: ‘Stop Telling Women To Smile’
From Stop Telling Women To Smile, Stop Telling Women to Smile is an art series by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh. The work attempts to address gender based street harassment by placing drawn portraits of women, composed with captions that speak directly to offenders, outside in public spaces. Tatyana Falalizadeh is an illustrator/painter based in Brooklyn, mostly known for…
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ArtWorthy: ‘She’s Gotta Have It’ – Nola Darling’s, Artistic Expressions
ART_library deco: Spike Lee released his latest body of work, a reboot of his 1986 film, ‘She’s Gotta Have It’ on Thanksgiving Day. There are numerous articles and reviews on the net about Nola Darling and her journey as a Black woman, her right to be free, and make her own decisions on her own terms…
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FreeArt: Get a Free Museum Membership at Participating Locations
From ART_library deco, Below are a few museums that we researched that offer free museum memberships in the United States. Take a look at each one and sign up today. Each membership is good for a year. Yale University Art Gallery As a free member, you will enjoy: Invitations to exhibitions and other programs at the Gallery Subscription to the Gallery’s tri-annual magazine…
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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