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Retired-Librarian @retired-librarian.bsky.social · 12h

#BannedBookSkyClub announcement!

The January 2026 book will be Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston.

Not to be missed! Join us! Spread the news! Link to feed in replies.

#TheirEyesWereWatchingGod #BookSky

Photo of the book Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. The cover has an illustration of part of a pear tree with a cabin in the background.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 12h

Georgia O'Keeffe.
Evening Star, No. III. 1917
#WomensArt

Semi adstract painting with a sun or circular gold star surrounded by red and orange lines over two bluey green horizontal lines

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 12h

'The Dusk Hour' by contemporary photographer Natalia Drepina #WomensArt

Photograph of a small lone tree silhouette in blue darkness against a starry sky under a cresent moon

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SI: National Museum of African Art (Bot) @siafricanart.bsky.social · 14h

Daguerreotype of Rhoda Phillips https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2011.34

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Invisible Institute @invisible.institute · 6d

Join the Invisible Institute and South Side Weekly on November 2 for an arts showcase honoring the life and legacy of Dr. Margaret T.G. Burroughs, featuring a special performance of “Tuesday” by Mud Theatre. Register here: invisible.institute/events

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Belcourt Theatre @belcourttheatre.bsky.social · 2d

“Probably the finest documentary about jazz ever made" re @chicagotribune.com.

This Mon, Nov 3 at 3:30pm + 8pm, Charlotte Zwerin's 1988 THELONIOUS MONK: STRAIGHT, NO CHASER — in a new 4K DCP > bit.ly/Restoration-Roundup-Nov-Dec-2025

Part of #RestorationRoundup + #MusicCityMondays.

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Learotha Williams, Jr. PhD @learothawms.bsky.social · 2d

Hey Nashville! Join us for a good time this weekend! Have Fun+Get Smarter!
#BlockParty

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”

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Mónica Leitão Mota @monicaleitaomota.bsky.social · 5d

The green mountains are my absolute fave, strangely enough. Playing with green shades and getting the saturation just right was super satisfying, gave me a sense of accomplishment that doesn't come often. 👁️🌳🟢
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#art #collage #contemporarypainting #mixedmediaart #monotype #portugal #sintra

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Reiko Renee Tate @reikorenee.bsky.social · 5d

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 6d

"We The People One" by Synthia Saint James, contemporary US visual artist, author, keynote speaker, and educator #WomensArt

Painting of a large gathering of people in colourful attire in a cityscape. All presented in a stylised simplified way.

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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 6d

New Harmony by Paul Klee, 1936
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137182

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

© 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 6d

'Tall shadows'' by Sarah Ross Thompson, contemporary UK #printmaker #womensart

Print featuring early rising light causing long shadows from the trunks of trees in a forest

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 7d

‘Temples of Hope, Rituals of Survival: Gordon Parks and Black Religious Life’ Now on View at Howard.

A new exhibition explores an underexamined chapter of the famed photographer’s documentation of religion in Black communities during the 20th Century.
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'Temples of Hope, Rituals of Survival: Gordon Parks and Black Religious Life' Now on View at Howard U.

A new exhibition explores an underexamined chapter of the famed photographer's documentation of religion in Black communities.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 7d

ICYMI: Drop everything and spend 13 minutes with Amy Sherald--with her singular vision and talent, with her clarity about her central place in the jagged American story. You will be stirred by it all. www.cbsnews.com/video/amy-sh...

Artist Amy Sherald: The 60 Minutes Interview

Amy Sherald spent years painting in obscurity, and almost died from a rare heart condition. Now 52, the artist behind Michelle Obama's official portrait is one of America's most celebrated painters.

www.cbsnews.com

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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 7d

In the hands of Reverend Joyce McDonald, clay becomes testimony. McDonald models small-scale figures of Black people whose presence and poise convey the quiet labors of love.

The Minister Who Created Care Through Clay

Joyce McDonald describes herself as a “testimonial artist,” who bears witness and represents the sacred as she and her community experience it.

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 7d

Here's a gift link to this article:
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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/o...

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Colleen [Redacted] @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 7d

The Incredible Story Behind the Largest African American Quilt Collection 📜
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The Incredible Story Behind the Largest African American Quilt Collection | Artnet News

Eli Leon's game-changing African American quilt donation stuns in "Routed West" at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA).

news.artnet.com

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 8d

Night Bird, 2020 Relief printing combined with charcoal, acrylic, gold leaf and hand stitching by US printmaker and mixed media artist Delita Martin #WomensArt

Print featuring the head and shoulders of a Black woman facing left and looking outwards, with feather ruff, circular patterning surround and cover the subject. All in blue, white and black

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 8d

Contemporary printmaker Alexandra Buckle #WomensArt

Print featuring a lush green wooded area next to a stream with reflections of tree trunks and dappled sunlight making long shadows

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 8d

'Owl's Bouquet' stonecut and stencil by Inuk artist Kenojuak Ashevak #WomensArt

Print featuring a stylised grey owl facing right looking outwards with stylised flower stens with nlosdons protruding from its head, against a white background

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Learotha Williams, Jr. PhD @learothawms.bsky.social · 12d

Our session at the Southern Festival of Books where we discussed our new book was featured on C-Span.

Many thanks to Vanderbilt University Press for its strong support of this project. 🧵

www.c-span.org/program/book...

[From the Fiery Furnace to the Promise Land]

The Tennessee Promise Land community was founded after the Civil War by former slaves. Serina Gilbert grew up there - and together with historian Learotha Williams - she told the story of a town that ...

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Colossal @thisiscolossal.com · 13d

Ruth Asawa arrived in New York with a monumental retrospective this month, making the largest show dedicated to a woman artist in MoMA's history.

www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/10/ruth...

installation view of 'Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective' at the Museum of Modern Art

a lithograph by Ruth Asawa of a reddish pink peony against a background of dark blue

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Reiko Renee Tate @reikorenee.bsky.social · 14d

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 14d

With 'Reimagine African American Art,’ the Detroit Institute of Arts chronicles the journey of Black artistry from 1840 to 1986. It is the culmination of generations of struggle and brilliance, told through fifty works michiganchronicle.com/dia-honors-t...

DIA Honors the Origin and Evolution of Black Art with New African American Galleries

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