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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A Conversation with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (LIVE) “American Fault Line: Race and the American Ideal”
From Bam: Wed, Mar 16, 2016 | 8pm LOCATION: Peter Jay Sharp Building, BAM Howard Gilman Opera House RUN TIME: 1hr 30min TICKETS START AT $35 + View Online Stream (Free) Ken Burns & Henry Louis Gates, Jr. in conversation with Michel Martin Documentarian Ken Burns and scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., join together to…
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Web Exhibit: Intergrating the Life of the Mind | African Americans at the University of Chicago 1870-1940
From The University of Chicago Library About this Exhibit: Exhibition Dates: September 2008 – February 2009 Integrating the Life of the Mind: African Americans at the University of Chicago, 1870-1940 From the late nineteenth century onward, African Americans have pursued studies in undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs at the University of Chicago. By 1943…
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Back in the Day- View Short Animated Homage to ‘The Wire’
From Elliot Lim: “I designed and animated this piece as an homage to my favorite show of all time, HBO’s ‘The Wire’” says the creator of the piece. The music in this short animation is entitled “Way Down in the Hole” by The Blind Boys of Alabama. Check out more of Lim’s work on his…
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Watch the Audacious Nate Parker in PTSD short film, ‘LU’
From Shadow and Act: Directed, written and produced by Korstiaan Vandiver, the film is also produced by myself (Dwight Wilson II), Kimberly Vandiver & Kevin Kinsey. The project, titled “LU,” stars Nate Parker as a PTSD veteran who is haunted by a tragic incident during a fire fight in Iraq, and is based on a…
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Culture Type Picks: Best Art Books of 2015
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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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