Black Women’s Art Ecosystems: Sites of Wellness and Self-Care Tanisha M. Jackson It is not an uncommon burden but rather a choice that Black women artists embrace creating art as […]
2026 Women’s History Month Reading List: Women in Art
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2025 National Arts & Humanities Month Reading List
Every October, we unite for National Arts & Humanities Month (NAHM), the nation’s largest annual celebration of arts and culture. It’s a moment to honor the artists, educators, veterans, arts administrators, […]
Free E-book Giveaway: ROOTS OF THE BLACK CHICAGO RENAISSANCE
August’s free e-book is here! Check out Roots of the Black Chicago Renaissance: New Negro Writers, Artists, and Intellectuals, 1893-1930 edited by Richard A. Courage and Christopher Robert Reed before […]
Visual Arts Research Seeking Submissions
Visual Arts Research is always seeking submissions of articles focused on visual arts and aesthetic education. The journal provides a forum for historical, critical, cultural, psychological, educational, and conceptual research. […]
Q&A with Jake Johnson, Author of Lying in the Middle
Jake Johnson, author of Lying in the Middle: Musical Theater and Belief at The Heart of America, answers questions on his scholarly influences, discoveries, and reader takeaways from his book. […]
Art education professor Jorge Lucero created a virtual “Museum of Us”
Editor of the University of Illinois journal Visual Arts Research, Jorge Lucero, recently invited people from around the world to connect with each other and share an object that was important […]
Marian Wilson Kimber Awarded Sight and Sound Subvention Award
Marian Wilson Kimber’s book The Elocutionists reclaimed a forgotten performance genre. From the mid-1800s to the 1940s, elocutionists recited poetry or drama with music to entertain audiences, in particular women’s […]
Get a Free eBook of Pink-Slipped by Jane M. Gaines
April’s free ebook is here! This time, we’re giving away Pink-Slipped: What Happened to Women in the Silent Film Industries? by Jane M. Gaines: Women held more positions of power […]
Q&A with Bennetta Jules-Rosette and J.R. Osborn, authors of African Art Reframed
Bennetta Jules-Rosette and J.R. Osborn recently answered some questions about their new book, African Art Reframed: Reflections and Dialogues on Museum Culture. Q: Why did you decide to write this […]
Q&A with Susan Potter, author of “Queer Timing”
Susan Potter is lecturer in film studies at the University of Sydney. She recently answered some questions about her new book, Queer Timing: The Emergence of Lesbian Sexuality in Early Cinema. Q: […]
Pier Luigi Nervi: Architectural Visions of Concrete and Beauty
The work of Italian engineer and builder Pier Luigi Nervi fascinates and inspires half a century after the completion of his best-known works. The spiraling, web-like patterns of his 1957 […]
The 5 Books You Need at #ASALH2017
Here are 5 new African American Studies books to keep an eye out for at ASALH this year. Make sure to stop by the UIP booth and check them out! […]