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Youth Art + Craft Sale @ East 38th Street Library
Led by local artist Tony Radford, kids and teens ages 8-16 have been creating 2D and 3D art from recycled materials at East 38th Street Library. The kids have been working real hard for the past couple of months on their pieces, so come support local youth…
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ROCK YOUR ART BLOG!
Is Your Art Blog on its Last Leg? Get Help! FUN FACT: Studies show that 75% of art blogs are incredibly boring. Ask yourself: – Who are you talking to on your blog? Who’s reading it? – What’s your blog really doing for…
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ARTIST | SPOTLIGHT: JAY WEST
Jay West is a contemporary Artist from Harlem, NY, who is quickly gaining recognition as one of the most promising young artists in New York. This brilliant young Artist’s work is about “mixing opposites” and making “worlds collide”. Drawing from a wide spectrum of inspirations, West’s paintings deal with subjects as diverse as popular cartoon…
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Southern discomfort: Kara Walker Continues to Shock and Awe
At first glance you cannot quite believe what you are seeing. Life-sized silhouettes made of black paper have been pasted directly on to the gallery walls. The cut-outs, you realize with a kind of mounting horror, comprise a deeply racist depiction of plantation life in America’s antebellum South. In one corner are outlines of…
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Online ART Visual | The Artwork of Elizabeth Catlett
— Art History Documentation: The Art of Elizabeth Catlett | Sculptures and Prints Download: http://elizabethcatlett.net/CATLETT_ANSG.pdf — Document Source: The Art of Elizabeth Catlett | Sculptures and Prints ANN NORTON SCULPTURE GARDENS M a d e p o s s i b l e b y s u p p o r t f r o m t h…
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ONLINE DOCUMENTARY | All Me: The Life and Times of Winfred Rembert
In “ALL ME: The Life and Times of Winfred Rembert,” we see firsthand the depiction of the day-to-day existence of African Americans in the segregated South. The artist relives his turbulent life, abundantly visualized by his extensive paintings and, in a series of intimate reminiscences, shows us how even the most painful memories can be…
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It’s a Black Thing…Collecting African American Memorabilia
The African American Library at the Gregory School Presents: It’s a Black Thing…Collecting African American Memorabilia Now through March 1, 2014 Black memorabilia not only signifies the legacy of African Americans, but the American tradition as a whole. This exhibit chronicles four local collections with objects that span from the turn of the century…
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A stunning copy of BLACK GRAPHICS INTERNATIONAL [1969]
Probable innaugural issue (un-numbered) of this superb Black Arts journal, a monograph of Detroit artist Aaron Pori Pitts’ work. Pitts studied art at Los Angeles City College and the Odis Art Institute prior to moving back to Detroit. In 1969 he founded Black Graphics International, a local press dedicated to publishing his own and others’…
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ART | library deco SWEET AS THE MOMENT WHEN THE ART WENT “POP” www.artlibrarydeco.wordpress.com What: Google Hangout ART Viewing – Learn why, how, and when this African American Online ART Journal was created and its future endeavors in the art world. Find out how to get your work reviewed and published in ART | library…
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