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Spring 2024
Art In May; Haiku
Cracking spring in may
Help me with better input
whilst watching the art
by atlas brown
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Symposium: Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power | LIVESTREAM
From ART | library deco: Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power “Soul of a Nation: Artists in Conversation” SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 10 AM TO 5:00 PM Celebrate the opening of Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power. This symposium features exhibition artists and curators who will…
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#Freebook: The Colors of Black History
From ART | library deco: Like to color? Need to release some stress? Want to think about your ancestors while sipping on tea or coffee? The Colors of Black History: Coloring Book | features African American politicians, writers, educators, and activists as visual conceptions to creatively take you into moments of solitude. Anyone that is…
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Podcast: Contemporary Black Canvas, By Dr. Pia Deas, Professor of African American Literature, interviews Black novelists, poets, filmmakers, visual artists, and radical gardeners and farmers
From ART | library deco: Description Contemporary Black Canvas celebrates the depth and breadth of the Black artistic and intellectual traditions from across the African Diaspora and Africa. Through conversations with leading writers, musicians, filmmakers, visual artists, dancers, radical gardeners, and institution builders, we examine the Black imagination as a vital, vibrant, and dynamic force…
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Obituary: Jack Whitten, African American Artist Transitions at 78
From Hyperallergic: Jack Whitten, who died this past weekend at age 78, cut across a lot of lines in his art and in his life. He was born in Bessemer, Alabama, in 1939, when Jim Crow laws were used to enforce segregation. He heard Martin Luther King Jr. speak in a church in Alabama in…
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Exhibition: DOX THRASH, BLACK LIFE, AND THE CARBORUNDUM MEZZOTINT
From the Palmer Museum of Art: Philadelphia-based artist Dox Thrash (1893–1965) was both a pioneering printmaker and a noted participant in the “New Negro” movement of the 1930s and ’40s. A veteran of World War I as well as the minstrel stage, he trained at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago before making his way to…
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