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REWIND: ONE WORLD IDEAS & ACTION TA-NEHISI COATES AND HEATHER MCGHEE
From Apollo Theater: REWIND | Thursday, April 16 | 8PM ET Apollo Theater’s Master Artist-in-Residence Ta-Nehisi Coates joined Heather McGhee, one of our leading thinkers on economic and social policy, for an evening of conversation. Ta-Nehisi Coates is the author of several bestselling books, including the modern classic Between the World and Me and, most recently, the #1 bestselling novel The…
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ART Archive: Mary Church Terrell Transcribe-A-Thon
From ART | library deco: Register for the Mary Church Terrell Transcribe-A-Thon! Participate in a teach and learn tutorial, then begin transcribing African American history from the Terrell collection housed at the Library of Congress. The event is free and limited to forty (40) virtual seats. The event is sponsored by the ART | library…
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NOW Available: COVID-19 Artist Resources
From ART | library deco: Visit this comprehensive listing of resources for artists in various disciplines. Feel free to suggest a link to be added to this list. CUE Art Foundation: http://cueartfoundation.org/covid19-artist-resources National Endowment for the Arts: https://www.arts.gov/covid-19-resources-for-artists-and-arts-organizations Americans for the Arts: https://www.americansforthearts.org/by-topic/disaster-preparedness/coronavirus-covid-19-resource-and-response-center Grant Station: https://grantstation.com/covid-19-related-funding Arts And Science: https://www.artsandscience.org/ Society of American Archivists: https://www2.archivists.org/resources-for-response-to-covid-19-health-crisis…
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ART Submission: Document Your COVID-19 Experience
Featured Post Now Collecting Experiences Credit: Letter written by James Baldwin to his sister. Public Domain, Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of The Baldwin Family
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ART Archive: Sun Ra’s Lecture & Reading List | “The Black Man and the Cosmos”
From Open Culture: A pioneer of “Afrofuturism,” bandleader Sun Ra emerged from a traditional swing scene in Alabama, touring the country in his teens as a member of his high school biology teacher’s big band. While attending Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University, he had an out-of-body experience during which he was transported into outer space. As…
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Film Reel: View Short Film, ‘Hair Love’
About Hair Love: Hair Love is a 2019 American animated short film written and directed by Matthew A. Cherry and co-produced with Karen Rupert Toliver. It follows the story of a man who must do his daughter’s hair for the first time, and it features Issa Rae as a voice of the mother. The film was produced after a 2017 Kickstarter campaign, and it was…
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ART Exhibition: WORKING TOGETHER: LOUIS DRAPER AND THE KAMOINGE WORKSHOP
From Virginia Museum of Arts: Exhibition features the work of 15 Kamoinge Workshop members and explores their role in 20th-century art history Richmond, Virginia — The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts will highlight the work of a remarkable group of African American photographers in the exhibition Working Together: Louis Draper and the Kamoinge Workshop. On display in…
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Listen: RIFFS AND RELATIONS AUDIO TOUR STOP 1
From the Phillips Collection: Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition presents works by African American artists of the 20th and 21st centuries together with examples by the early 20th century European artists with whom they engaged. This exhibition explores the connections and frictions around modernism in the work of artists such as…
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ARTNews: Now Available, NMAAHC OPEN ACCESS Collection
From National Museum of African American History and Culture The Smithsonian has launched its Open Access Initiative. Images of objects from the NMAAHC collection are now available to view, download, and share through a CC0 license. ART | library viewed the new collection and chose the following artifact to curate in this issue: Title: DELEGATE PUBLISHED BY MelPat Associates, American, 1965 –…
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On View: Per(Sister): Incarcerated Women of Louisiana
From the Newcomb Art Museum @ Tulane University Newcomb Art Museum has partnered with formerly incarcerated women, community organizations, stakeholders, and those directly impacted by the prison system to create the exhibition Per(Sister), which is intended to share the stories of currently and formerly incarcerated women in Louisiana, and shine a light on the myriad…
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