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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ART Conversation | Free Registration: Telling The American Story on our Public Lands
US Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and Mellon Foundation President discuss reparative work on public lands.
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ART Literati | #freebook Buy Black: How Black Women Transformed US Pop Culture, by Aria S. Halliday
“Buy Black” by Aria S. Halliday, explores the impact of American Black women on US pop culture. Get your free copy now!
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ART Literati | The Centennial Birthday of James Baldwin
James Baldwin’s 100th birthday celebrated for his literary, social impact.
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ART Exhibition | Now On View: LaToya Ruby Frazier: Monuments of Solidarity
LaToya Ruby Frazier’s exhibition at MoMA, “Monuments of Solidarity,” confronts historical erasure and amnesia through multimedia installations, addressing industrialization, health-care inequities, ecological crises, and workers’ rights. Frazier’s work embodies solidarity and collective expression.
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ART History | JULY 5, 1852: FREDERICK DOUGLASS DELIVERS SPEECH, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”
On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass gave a speech titled “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” in Rochester, New York, addressing the paradox of celebrating freedom while slavery persists.
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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