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 BOOKS | DOWNLOAD FREE COPY: Ain’t I a Woman? by bell hooks
FEATURED FREE BOOK She wrote under the pseudonym of bell hooks Book Cover Image: Public Domain
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ART THERAPY | BLACK HISTORY THEME 2022
Black History Month 2022 The theme for Black History Month 2022 is Black Health and Wellness. According to ASLAH the theme acknowledges the legacy of not only Black scholars and medical practitioners in Western medicine, but also other ways of knowing (e.g., birth-workers, doulas, midwives, naturopaths, herbalists, etc.) throughout the African Diaspora. The 2022 theme…
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ART Exhibition | THE MET PRESENTS LONG TERM EXHIBITION: BEFORE YESTERDAY WE COULD FLY, AN AFROFUTURIST PERIOD ROOM
Exhibition dates: ONGOINGExhibition location: The Met Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, First Floor, Gallery 508 Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room THE MET unveiled a long-term installation this past month, Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room, that transforms a 19th-century domestic interior into a space untethered by time. Like traditional period rooms, the installation…
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ART Obituary | bell hooks, FEMINIST WRITER & HUMANITARIAN TRANSITIONS at 69
“I am passionate about everything in my life–first and foremost, passionate about ideas. And that’s a dangerous person to be in this society, not just because I’m a woman, but because it’s such a fundamentally anti-intellectual, anti-critical thinking society. ” — bell hooks
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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