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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Virtual Experience: 19th-Century African American Artists
19th-Century African American Artists from Harry Swartz-Turfle
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Digital Curation | Digital Preservation
At this time, I’m currently working on a Graduate Certificate in Digital Content Management. There are numerous opportunities and genres to study about as it pertains to art libraries in the course that I’m enrolled in this summer: Digital Libraries. The class has been assigned to write a concept brief about an aspect of digital…
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Biopic: Notes on Lorraine Hansberry
The website Shadow & Act released an announcement this weekend that consists of an unconventional biopic based on the life of playwright, author, activist Lorraine Hansberry (A Raisin in the Sun), in development with longtime collaborators Taye Hansberry(grand niece of Lorraine Hansberry and author of stuffshelikes.net), and Numa Perrier (The Couple) penning the script to a film that will star Taye…
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Pearls: HeLa cells
My Fascination with Henrietta Lacks & Lovie Olivia: I had no idea who she was in modern medicine. My godmother emailed me and told me that I should purchase a book about her life written, by Journalist’ Rebecca Skloot. Unbeknownst to me she was another human experiment. I still have not purchased the book. However, she came back into my psyche, by way of an artist. “In…
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Brown Eyes: Understanding Art | Understanding Culture #2
The South Dallas Cultural Center has been in existence for over 30 years in Dallas, Texas. I frequent the cultural arts institution on a regular basis when I travel to the city. Vicki Meek is the Manager & Art Curator at the South Dallas Cultural Center. Recently, I was able to talk with her about…
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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