If you attended this month’s First Saturday at the museum you may have noticed it included a brand n

If you attended this month’s First Saturday at the museum you may have noticed it included a brand new event to the line-up! The Archives hosted a tour titled: “Archives as Raw History” featuring materials from the archival collection during “The Age of Black Power.” Visitors were able to directly engage with archival documents in a way museum goers typically do not get to do.The Library was very excited to participate in the event, and provide book selections in support of the museum’s current show, Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power. One of those was On the Blackness of Blacknuss, a series of pamphlets from Moor’s Head Press and a new acquisition for the Library and Archives. These pamphlets each feature historic and critical writings from the prominent and influential cultural voices of W.E.B. Du Bois, Frantz Fanon, Arthur Jafa, and Sylvia Wynter. Here, their writings are brought together as a reminder of all the work that has been done by the brave scholars and activists before us, and as a call to action for current and future history makers.If you are interested in further reading, the list of titles featured during the First Saturday event are here:Art on fire: the politics of race and sex in the paintings of Faith RinggoldBearing Witness: Contemporary Works by African American Women ArtistsBlack Liberation—Now!Black Romantic: Figurative Impulse in Contemporary African-American ArtCause and EffectEnergy-Experimentation: Black Artists and Abstraction, 1964-1980Faith Ringgold: A View From the StudioFiguring History: Robert Colescott, Kerry James Marshall, Mickalene ThomasGordon Parks: Segregation StoryInvisible Man: Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison in HarlemMelvin Edwards, Sculpture: A Thirty-Year Retrospective, 1963-1993On the Blackness of BlacknussPower to the People: The Graphic Design of the Radical Press and the Rise of the Counter-Culture, 1964-1974Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black PowerSpeaking of People: Ebony, Jet, and Contemporary ArtWe Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85: New PerspectivesWitness: Art and Civil Rights in the SixtiesPosted by Ashley Hinshaw -- source link

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