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 Research | BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2022: African American Artists of Texas Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
You Are Cordially Invited February 24, 2022 About this event Did you know that Wikipedia is an openly editable resource? Any can edit or improve Wikipedia articles, even YOU! Join us virtually on February 24th and help improve and create Wikipedia content about African American artists from Texas. No editing experienced is necessary. Training will…
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ART Talk | RSVP FOR DEBUT: SOCIETY OF AMERICAN ARCHIVIST’S WARs February VIDEO Podcast Event
Join us as we sit and discuss professional, cultural, and social issues relevant in the archival profession over coffee. Guests are welcome to share their thoughts, opinions, and suggestions with our audience during the tell-me-more segment of the podcast. February discussion:New Year: What is Your Word/Theme for 2022What is an Archive? How is it changing?…
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ART TRANSITION | A MOMENT OF SILENCE FOR ANDRE LEON TALLEY
André Leon Talley was the former African-American editor-at-large for Vogue magazine and had been a front-row regular at fashion shows in New York, Paris, London and Milan for more than 25 years. The Only One As a black man and the creative director of Vogue, André Leon Talley is at the intersection of many worlds. Fashion Statements…
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ART ESSAY | BLACK AMERICA, 1895, BY DOROTHY BERRY
During the summer of 1895, in a Brooklyn park, there was a cotton plantation complete with five hundred Black workers reenacting slavery. Dorothy Berry uncovers the bizarre and complex history of Black America, a theatrical production which revealed the conflicting possibilities of self-expression in a racist society. Acres of white cotton and a hundred wooden cabins…
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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