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ART Research | BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2022: African American Artists of Texas Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

You Are Cordially Invited February 24, 2022 About this event Did you know that Wikipedia is an openly editable resource? Any can edit or improve Wikipedia articles, even YOU! Join us virtually on February 24th and help improve and create Wikipedia content about African American artists from Texas. No editing experienced is necessary. Training will…
ART Talk | RSVP FOR DEBUT: SOCIETY OF AMERICAN ARCHIVIST’S WARs February VIDEO Podcast Event

Join us as we sit and discuss professional, cultural, and social issues relevant in the archival profession over coffee. Guests are welcome to share their thoughts, opinions, and suggestions with our audience during the tell-me-more segment of the podcast. February discussion:New Year: What is Your Word/Theme for 2022What is an Archive? How is it changing?…
ART BOOKS | UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO FREE E-BOOK, ALAIN L. LOCKE: THE BIOGRAPHY OF PHILOSOPHY
ART TRANSITION | A MOMENT OF SILENCE FOR ANDRE LEON TALLEY

André Leon Talley was the former African-American editor-at-large for Vogue magazine and had been a front-row regular at fashion shows in New York, Paris, London and Milan for more than 25 years. The Only One As a black man and the creative director of Vogue, André Leon Talley is at the intersection of many worlds. Fashion Statements…
ART ESSAY | BLACK AMERICA, 1895, BY DOROTHY BERRY

During the summer of 1895, in a Brooklyn park, there was a cotton plantation complete with five hundred Black workers reenacting slavery. Dorothy Berry uncovers the bizarre and complex history of Black America, a theatrical production which revealed the conflicting possibilities of self-expression in a racist society. Acres of white cotton and a hundred wooden cabins…
ART REWIND

NOW ARCHIVED IN THE STACKS Cover Image Credit: Martin Luther King, Jr. photographed by Marion S. Trikosko, 1964. LC-DIG-ppmsc-01269 Source: Library of Congress
ART Collections | COMMUNITY WEBS PRESENTS: Webinar: Special Topic on Building Digital Collections on Archive.org
ART Quote | IN REAL TIME, GLENN LIGON TELLS THE WORLD LIKE IT IS

Artwork Courtesy of Art Journal Open, Glenn Ligon, Come Out Study #13, 2014, silkscreen on canvas on panel, 36 x 47 7/8 in. (91.4 x 121.6 cm) (artwork © Glenn Ligon; photograph by Ronald Amstutz, provided by the artist, Hauser & Wirth, New York, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, and Chantal Crousel,…
ART Libraries | CALL FOR APPLICATIONS for CO-EDITOR of LIBRARIES: CULTURE, HISTORY, and SOCIETY

Libraries Culture, History, and Society Call for Applications for Co-Editor of Libraries: Culture, History, and Society The Executive Committee of the Library History Round Table (LHRT) of the American Library Association (ALA) and the LCHS Search Committee invite applications for the position of co-editor of Libraries: Culture, History, and Society. We seek a co-editor who can contribute to and expand…
ART LEGACY | MLK DAY OF SERVICE: ART library deco PRESENTS “UNITED STATES COLORED TROOPS” VIRTUAL TRANSCRIBING EVENT

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Day of Service Join ART | library deco for our annual MLK Day of Service! This year ART | library deco will host a mini-tutorial and transcribe records in collaboration with the National Archives’ Citizen Archivist Program. The collection: “United States Colored Troops” – American Civil War. Participants will have…