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 DIASPORIA | The Language of Beauty in African Art , The Kimbell Museum
NOW ON VIEW Visit Thru –July 31, 2022 Kimbell Art Museum The Language of Beauty in African Art presents nearly 250 remarkable works from collections around the world—compelling art that scholars, connoisseurs and collectors outside Africa have admired for more than a century. The exhibition features an incredible variety of objects, including a range of impressive and powerful sculptures, captivating costumes…
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ART Advocacy | SUMMER/FALL 2022 EXHIBITION: A SITE of STRUGGLE, AMERICAN ART AGAINST ANTI BLACK VIOLENCE
A SITE OF STRUGGLE: American Art against Anti-Black Violence August 12 through November 6, 2022 Overview A Site of Struggle: American Art against Anti-Black Violence explores how artists have grappled with the reality of anti-black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation. From the horrors of slavery and lynching, to the violent suppression of civil rights…
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ART TITLES | A Selection of African American Art and Artists’ Books, The MET MUSEUM
FROM THE MET Watson Library’s publications from their collection on African American art and artists: The books represent a selection of over eight hundred publications acquired through an initiative launched in July 2020 to significantly enhance our collection of monographs, exhibition catalogs, periodicals, zines, and artists’ books by and about African American art and artists.…
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ART EXBITION | Debuting September 2022, CALLED TO CREATE: BLACK ARTISTS OF THE AMERICAN SOUTH, The National Gallery of Art
UPCOMING EXHIBITION CALLED TO CREATE: BLACK ARTISTS OF THE AMERICAN SOUTH THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART September 18, 2022 – March 26, 2023East Building, Upper Level, West Bridge ABOUT EXHIBITION For decades Thornton Dial, James “Son Ford” Thomas, Lonnie Holley, Mary T. Smith, Purvis Young, and many other Black artists in the South worked with little recognition,…
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ART Engagement | Sketching in the Galleries, National Museum of African Art
Featured Sketching in the Galleries at the National Museum of African Art Like to draw? Have some free time on Thursdays? Drop in and explore the galleries. Sketch pads, pencils, museum maps, and chairs are available in the Pavilion. If you bring your own art supplies, please note only dry, nonchalky-media pencil. wax crayon. and…
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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