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 EXHIBITION | Afro-Atlantic Histories, Museum of Fine Arts Houston
Afro-Atlantic Histories October 24, 2021–January 17, 2022 The MFAH presents the U.S. tour of Afro-Atlantic Histories, an unprecedented exhibition that explores the history and legacy of the transatlantic slave trade. The exhibition comprises more than 130 works of art and documents made in Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean, and Europe across 500 years, from the 17th century to the…
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ART VIRTUAL | FREE ONLINE WORKSHOP, OUR ROOTS Cartoon Workshop with TAYO Fatunla
Featured Free Art Event This workshop will examine the foundation of the art form and what it means to be a cartoonist with a purpose! OUR ROOTS Cartoon Workshop with TAYO Fatunla October 28, 2021 4–5:30 p.m. (US Eastern Daylight Time) Ages: 12 and up Zoom webinar Discover the wonderful world of cartooning and animation…
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ART VIRTUAL | I Am . . . Contemporary Women Artists of Africa, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art
From the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art Nearly fifty years after the release of the feminist anthem “I Am Woman,” women still find their numbers underrepresented in politics, business, and museum collections. While this exhibition draws its name from the 1970s song, it highlights a more contemporary feminism that is not based on any…
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ART EXHIBIT | FEATURED SPOTLIGHT: PAMELA COUNCIL & FLO JO WORLD RECORD NAILS
About Artist: Pamela Council is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist creating fountains for Black joy. Guided by material, cultural, and metaphysical quests, Council’s practice embodies a darkly humorous and inventive Afro-Americana camp aesthetic, BLAXIDERMY. Through this lens, Council uses sculpture, print, design, architecture, writing, and performance to shed light on under-examined narratives, and to make…
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ART REWIND
Latest from ART | library deco Art Cover Image: Courtesy of Smithsonian Museum of African ArtSusanne Wenger (Olorisha Adunni)1915–2009, Graz, AustriaWorked in Oshogbo, NigeriaUntitled1960–69Screen print on paperGift of the Collection of William and Mattye Reed, 2011-11-2Title of Art Work: Visual piety.
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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