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 REWIND
Founded in 1946 as Negro Achievements by Horace J. Blackwell, an African-American clothing merchant of Fort Worth, Texas, who also had already founded The World’s Messenger in 1942, featuring romance-true confession type stories of working-class blacks, Sepia is a photojournalistic magazine that featured articles based primarily on achievements of African Americans. It was part of the rise of postwar…
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ART Exhibitions | NOW ON VIEW @ THE DALLAS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF ART: WINTER 2022 EXHIBITIONS
Free Texas African American Art, History, and Photography Exhibitions Through February 2022 African American Museum3536 Grand Ave.Dallas, TX 75201 Get Directions > | Visit Museum Online Prairie View Interscholastic League: On View Through February 15, 2022 The History of the Prairie View Interscholastic League: Black High School Sports in Texas in the Era of Segregation:…
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ART Archives | VIEW & DOWNLOAD, FAITH RINGGOLD’S: “Free woman, free yourself”
Cover Artwork: Faith Ringgold in front of Tar Beach #2 (1990) quilt, 1993 | Photo (cropped) by Kathy Willens, Fair use
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ART Service | CITIZEN ARCHIVIST: MLK DAY 2022 United States Colored Troops – Transcribing Civil War Records
Transcribing United States Colored Troop – Civil War Records MLK DAY OF SERVICE Join ART | library deco for a LIVE transcribing records session using the National Archives’ United States Colored Troop – Civil War Records as a resource to archive Black History! In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, spend some time…
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ART Literati | FREE BOOKS: A self-care manual for artists of color by Ruskeat Tytöt
Intersectionally feminist self-care manual for the POC artist Ruskeat Tytöt explains in the excerpt below why people of color need to practice self-care. She shares a free how-to guide for artists to read online and download. Self-care is defined as any action to preserve or better one’s health. The general interpretation seems to culminate in…
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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