NATIONAL POETRY MONTH 2024
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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 Public Domain | THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: “AFRICAN CHIEF”
“African Chief” ArtistMariano Fortuny y Marsal Title African Chief Date 1870 Medium Oil on canvas Inscriptions Inscribed, lower right: Fortuny ’70/ A MI AMIGO… (name indicipherable) PUBLIC DOMAIN ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO “A good chief is like a forest: everyone can go there and get something.” – The Congo “African Images” CC0 Public Domain Designation
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ART EXHIBITION | MODERN ART MUSEUM OF FORT WORTH PRESENTS, FOCUS: JAMAL CYRUS
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth Presents FOCUS: Jamal Cyrus NOW ON VIEW THRU –June 26, 2022 The Houston-based artist examines forgotten, ignored, or fragmentary accounts of Black American culture. He raises clear questions about “official” history, what is overlooked and why, and the biases held by those writing and interpreting it. Cyrus uses a…
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ART FILM | POPLIFE PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS: THE INDEPENDENT FILM, HARGROVE
INDEPENDENT FILM Film Debut: September 1, 2022 Director’s Statement: This film chronicles the journey of trumpet legend Roy Hargrove’s last year as he embarks on his final European summer tour while reflecting on his life and the wisdom he wants to impart on young musicians. Roy is celebrated through priceless footage of his final days…
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ART COMMITTEE | SOCIETY OF AMERICAN ARCHIVISTS, NOMINATIONS OPEN FOR ARCHIVISTS & ARCHIVES OF COLOR SECTION
NOMINATIONS NOW OPEN! The Archivists and Archives of Color Section (AAC) is an interest group within the Society of American Archivists. The AAC Section helps to identify concerns and promote the needs of archivists and archives of color. Would you like to meet other archivists of color? Build your leadership skills? If yes, nominate yourself for the SAA Archivists and Archives…
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ART Talk | Robert Pruitt at Mississippi Museum of Art with Black Art in America
Featured Exhibition Open at the Mississippi Museum of Art on April 9, 2022-September 2022, Before Traveling to the Baltimore Museum of Art View Exhibition Schedule Throughout the presentation of its landmark exhibition A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration, the Mississippi Museum of Art will present a free series of critical conversations, films, performances,…
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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