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 WELLNESS | THE NAP MINISTERY | Rest is Resistance
ALL ARTISTS READ REFLECTIONS CURATED BY TRICIA HERSEY
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![ART DRAFT | CCA ARCHITECTURE and MoAD Present: [Un]commoning Architectural Language](https://artlibrarydeco.space/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/621e7faf7a248d1db723d1e7_poster.jpg?w=1024)
ART DRAFT | CCA ARCHITECTURE and MoAD Present: [Un]commoning Architectural Language
Symposium | [Un]commoning Architectural Language Register for symposium that convenes a panel of interdisciplinary scholars and practitioners to discuss ways in which cultural movements like Afrofuturism and Afrosurrealism can reveal new languages of spatial imagination to tackle questions of representation, appropriation, intersectionality and authenticity within an aesthetics of spatial (in)justice. Featuring Lonny Brooks, Nyame Brown, Bz (Brenda) Zhang,…
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ART WOMEN | CELEBRATING THE WORK OF AFRICAN AMERICAN PAINTER, GILDA SNOWDEN
SHE WAS ART… “…A chronicle of my family on their travels from Alabama to Detroit. We are all looking for something, all traveling from here to there.” Gilda Snowden, 1988 According to the African American Registry, Gilda Snowden was born on July 29, 1954. She was a Black artist, educator, and mentor. The artist transitioned on…
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ART QUOTE | THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN NOVELIST TO SELL A MILLION COPIES, ANN PETRY
“All truly great art is propaganda.” — Ann Petry Cover Image, Ann Petry, Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964. Petry, Ann. Box 223. 1948 November 12. https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/2022340. Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters. James Weldon Johnson Collection in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
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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