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ART UPGRADE | TODAY! SUBSCRIBE to ART library Deco or INVEST & BECOME AN ART LIBRARY PATRON
Become a supporter of ART | library deco by subscribing or upgrading and invest in the library as an Art library patron. Learn more about the history of the virtual African American art library. We are more than just a website. The virtual art library curates art news, exhibitions, and collections for patrons to access…
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ART Podcast | 5-Part Podcast: “A Frame of Mind” Explores Museum History through Voices, Memories of Kansas Citians
Episode One From the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, A five-part podcast produced by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and hosted by local poet Glenn North, features stories that explore issues such as Race, race, representation, identity, and belonging, through personal histories and encounters with the museum. Each episode interlaces the perspectives and voices of 23…
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ART Education | THE WHITNEY MUSUEM OF ART PRESENTS A 3-PART COURSE: ON CONTEMPORARY ART, SUBJECTHOOD IN PAINTING TODAY
FROM THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF ART Course on Contemporary Art:Subjecthood in Painting Today, This three-part course explores the work of contemporary painters of color who utilize the figure to explore the conceptual. Held in conjunction with the exhibition Jennifer Packer: The Eye Is Not Satisfied With Seeing, it offers participants an in-depth view into the fragmented…
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ART Quote | SIDNEY POITIER & HIS BLACKNESS
“Okay listen, you think I’m so inconsequential? Then try this on for size. All those who see unworthiness when they look at me and are given thereby to denying me value – to you I say, I’m not talking about being AS GOOD as you. I hereby declare myself BETTER than you.” — Sidney Poitier…
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ART REWIND
Founded in 1946 as Negro Achievements by Horace J. Blackwell, an African-American clothing merchant of Fort Worth, Texas, who also had already founded The World’s Messenger in 1942, featuring romance-true confession type stories of working-class blacks, Sepia is a photojournalistic magazine that featured articles based primarily on achievements of African Americans. It was part of the rise of postwar…
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ART Exhibitions | NOW ON VIEW @ THE DALLAS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF ART: WINTER 2022 EXHIBITIONS
Free Texas African American Art, History, and Photography Exhibitions Through February 2022 African American Museum3536 Grand Ave.Dallas, TX 75201 Get Directions > | Visit Museum Online Prairie View Interscholastic League: On View Through February 15, 2022 The History of the Prairie View Interscholastic League: Black High School Sports in Texas in the Era of Segregation:…
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ART Archives | VIEW & DOWNLOAD, FAITH RINGGOLD’S: “Free woman, free yourself”
Cover Artwork: Faith Ringgold in front of Tar Beach #2 (1990) quilt, 1993 | Photo (cropped) by Kathy Willens, Fair use
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ART Service | CITIZEN ARCHIVIST: MLK DAY 2022 United States Colored Troops – Transcribing Civil War Records
Transcribing United States Colored Troop – Civil War Records MLK DAY OF SERVICE Join ART | library deco for a LIVE transcribing records session using the National Archives’ United States Colored Troop – Civil War Records as a resource to archive Black History! In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, spend some time…
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