ART WEEKEND REWIND

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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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  • Open Access: James Baldwin Review

    From Manchester Press: JOURNAL INFORMATION James Baldwin Review Edited by Douglas Field, Justin A. Joyce, and Dwight A. McBride ISSN: 2056-9211 (Online) Frequency: Annual DESCRIPTION The James Baldwin Review (JBR) is an annual, Open Access, and peer-reviewed journal. It brings together a wide array of peer-reviewed critical and creative work on the life, writings, and…

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  • Bookmark: Feminist Stories, After the Dreams: A Cultural Retrospective of Sameness (mini-art collection)

    From ART | library deco: ART | library deco has designed its new online exhibition space now available to the public. The first body of work that is on view beginning June 1: Feminist Stories, After the Dreams: A Cultural Retrospective of Sameness (mini-art collection) — Contemporary artists from the African Diaspora have adopted new…

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  • Rewind: Museums Look At The Black Women Artists History Has Overlooked

    From Huff Post/Arts & Culture: On the first day of Black History Month, the good people at Google blessed the internet with a doodle honoring Edmonia Lewis, the first woman of African-American and Native American descent to earn global recognition as a fine arts sculptor. Lewis, who grew up while slavery was still legal in…

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  • Meet: Black Female Architect is Behind the New Smithsonian Museum

    From Urban Intellectuals: Over a century since slavery was abolished, an African-American museum is rising as the last museum to be built on Washington DC’s National Mall. While the leader of the project is David Adjaye a Tanzanian born architect that works out of London and New York City, the focus these days has been…

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  • Watch: Ruth Negga read Zadie Smith’s ‘Swing Time’

    From Vogue.com: Ruth Negga, was asked to read (with her impeccable Irish trill!) the first chapter of what’s destined to be your next favorite—and the season’s hottest—book: Zadie Smith’s Swing Time. Lean back, relax, and have a listen. Consider it our gift to you (and the easiest gift to go out and pick up for someone…

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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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