| LII.org (Home) | About LII IPL.org Suggest a Site Subscribe to New This Week Contact |
|
|
 |
|||
|
|||
|
|||
|
|
|||
Art, African American
 Websites presented in alphabetical order "Big Chiefs" Continue Mardi Gras Indian Tradition 
 Audio of a 2006 radio story and associated photos about how "in neighborhoods throughout New Orleans, black men don Indian costumes they worked on all year -- suits they carefully stitch and bead by hand" to wear in Mardi Gras parades. Features discussion of the history of this tradition. Includes links to related stories. From National Public Radio (NPR). http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5237773 Topics: Black Resources, Holidays and Observances Individually, U.S. History By Place Last updated Jan 23, 2008 Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist
Website for a 2007 retrospective celebrating "the art and legacy of Aaron Douglas (1899-1979), a Kansas native considered the foremost visual artist of the Harlem Renaissance." Features a timeline of Douglas' life, photos from the exhibition, exhibition brochure, and other material accompanying the exhibit. Also includes photos of and videos about a public mural created in conjunction with the exhibition. From the Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas. http://www.aarondouglas.ku.edu/ Topics: Black Resources Last updated Jan 13, 2009 Amistad Research Center
This archive, located on the campus of Tulane University in New Orleans, contains historical material on African Americans and other ethnic groups, including "manuscripts, photographs, oral histories, books, periodicals and works of art." The site includes an overview of the collection, accounts of the Amistad slave revolt, and links to related sites. http://www.amistadresearchcenter.org/ Topics: Black Resources, Constitutional Law & Civil Liberties, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections: History Last updated Sep 4, 2009 Black American Feminism: A Multidisciplinary Bibliography
"An extensive bibliography of Black American Feminist thought from across the disciplines." Arranged by discipline (arts and humanities; social sciences; education; health, medicine, and science) and format (autobiographies, biographies, memoirs, personal narratives; interviews; speeches; anthologies; periodicals; Web sites). Contains mainly references to print resources, with some Web links. Updated quarterly. Compiled by Sherri Barnes, Associate Librarian, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara. http://www.library.ucsb.edu/subjects/blackfeminism/ Topics: Black Resources, Nonfiction by Genre, Women Last updated May 10, 2004 Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas
This exhibition "traces the graphic art made by Emory Douglas while he worked as minister of culture for the Black Panther Party from 1967 until its discontinuation in the early 1980s." View images of the physical exhibit and of the art for posters, pamphlets, and newspapers. Website also includes a gallery guide, audio of a talk with Douglas, and suggestions for further reading. From the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles. http://www.moca-la.org/emorydouglas/ Topics: Art, Black Resources Last updated Jan 15, 2008 Creative Space: Fifty Years of Robert Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop
This companion site to a Library of Congress exhibit explores the life and works of New York City printmaker Robert Blackburn. The exhibit features information about Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop, "the oldest and largest non-profit print workshop in the United States," as well as his earlier involvement with the Harlem Community Art Center (sponsored by the Works Progress Administration). Includes images of works by Blackburn and his colleagues. Searchable. http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/blackburn/ Topics: Black Resources, Notable People, Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts Last updated May 23, 2004 Documenting Our Past: The Teenie Harris Archive Project
Teenie Harris' "40-year career with the Pittsburgh Courier, one of the largest and most influential Black newspapers in the country, began as the nation emerged from the Depression and ended with the Civil Rights Movement. Numbering upwards of 80,000 images [over 45,000 shown here], this archive represents the largest single collection of photographic images of any Black community in the United States -- or the world, for that matter." From the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. http://www.cmoa.org/teenie/info.asp Topics: Black Resources, Notable People, Notable People: Arts & Humanities, Photograph Collections: History, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, Photography, U.S. History By Place Last updated Jan 2, 2009 Dox Thrash: An African American Master Printmaker Rediscovered
A biographical timeline, images, and information and illustrative examples of various styles of printmaking utilized by Thrash (carborundum mezzotint, carborundum relief etching, aquatint, drypoint, etching, linocut, lithograph, woodcuts). A companion to an exhibit of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, this site also features information on conservation methods used in the exhibit. http://www.philamuseum.org/micro_sites/exhibitions/thrash/ Topics: Black Resources, Notable People Last updated Apr 23, 2006 The Duke Ellington Society: An Appreciation of the Great Duke Ellington
An elegantly designed site produced by the Duke Ellington Jazz Society. All aspects of Ellington's art and career are covered, with special sections on his singers and on Billy Strayhorn, with music samples and links to other Ellington sites. Note: the news and links sections have not been updated recently. http://museum.media.org/duke/ Topics: Black Resources, Music, Musicians, Notable People Last updated Oct 1, 2004 Jacob Lawrence: Exploring Stories
This site contains a biography, images of works, information on the artist's working methods, resources for teachers, a bibliography, and links related to the African American painter. Also includes student art and stories. From the Whitney Museum of American Art. Note: Contains dead links in the "Learning Resources" section. http://www.whitney.org/jacoblawrence/ Topics: Black Resources, Notable People, Notable People: Arts & Humanities Last updated Apr 8, 2006 A Piece of My Soul: Quilts by Black Arkansans
This collection of images of quilts created by African Americans from Arkansas can be explored by looking at quilting families, individual quilters, and quilt types such as log cabin, center star or medallion, combined patterns, and miniature and doll quilts. Provides biographies of the quilters and quilting families, and related links (a few broken). From the Old State House Museum in Little Rock, Arkansas. http://www.oldstatehouse.com/piece-of-my-soul/ Topics: Black Resources, Crafts Last updated Jan 10, 2008 Posters from the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies
A database of over 70 posters "published in Africa and elsewhere" on such African topics as apartheid, elections, and liberation movements. The posters, dating from the 1970s through the 1990s, were "created by governments (independent and colonial) and international agencies, as well as political, labor, social, religious, educational and cultural organizations." From a collection at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. http://www.library.northwestern.edu/africana/collections/posters/ Topics: Arts and Humanities, Black Resources, Constitutional Law & Civil Liberties, Regions of the World, Regions of the World Last updated Jan 7, 2006 Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance
An introduction to this period of the flowering of the arts: music, painting, dance, and literature in the black community in Harlem. Included are backgrounds for a few artists, a bibliography, and a chronology. http://www.iniva.org/harlem/intro.html Topics: Black Resources, Literary Movements and Periods, U.S. History By Place Last updated Apr 12, 2004 Romare Bearden: Let's Walk the Block
"See Harlem street life through the eyes and imagination of Romare Bearden. This exploration of his famous collage, 'The Block,' includes a guided tour, music by the Branford Marsalis Quartet, and activities designed for kids, parents, and teachers." Includes background about Bearden, who was born in 1911 in North Carolina into a "middle-class, African-American family. When he was three, his family moved to Harlem." From the Metropolitan Museum of Art. http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/the_block/index_flash.html Topics: Artists, Black Resources Last updated Jan 24, 2007 Tour: African-American Artists: Collection Highlights
"The [National] Gallery's collection of American art includes some 150 works by African-American artists. This online tour offers commentary on a selection of twenty-two paintings, works on paper, and sculpture ranging from a colonial portrait by Joshua Johnson of Baltimore to modern and contemporary pieces by Jacob Lawrence, Romare Bearden, Alma Thomas, Sam Gilliam, Barkley Hendricks, Willie Cole, Kara Walker, and Lorna Simpson." From the National Gallery of Art. http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/ggafamer/ggafamer-main1.html Topics: Black Resources Last updated Feb 19, 2009 |
|||
| Copyright © 2009, Librarians' Internet Index, LII. All rights reserved. Financial support for LII (Librarians' Internet Index) comes from the The iSchool at Drexel, College of Information Science and Technology and the IPL Consortium. LII is hosted by The iSchool at Drexel, College of Information Science and Technology. |