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Kindred Blackness | ART. LIT. DATA.
Kindred Blackness | ART. LIT. DATA. set is a carefully curated data resource dedicated to African American community web archiving, data information, art, and literature, and providing access to the work of a select group of artists and writers from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The work of these artists and writers is archived as text as data and information as art, serving as a valuable source of information for research or life-long learning. The data project is based on the belief that self-documentation of one's history is essential to understanding oneself and one's community through art and writing. -
The Kindred Blackness Museum Project Archive
The Kindred Blackness Museum project archive is an imaginative virtual space that showcases the archival practices of African American artists from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The artists from this community, both visual and literary, represent their strong connection to their city and their proud legacy. -
Repository Exhibition: For Love of Illusion
For Love of Illusion documents the life of Bella da Costa Greene -
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Genealogical History: Hertha Auburn Webb Glenn
Genealogical Records about the life of Hertha Auburn Webb Glenn -
Collection Cover: Hertha Auburn Webb Glenn
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Oral History with Hertha Auburn Webb Glenn
Oral history conducted about the life of African American educator, club and sorority woman. -
Homage to Duke, Bessie, and Louis
Homage to Duke, Bessie, and Louis pays tribute to musicians Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith, and Louis Armstrong. Musicians and jazz often appear in Romare Bearden’s work, but here, he specifically cites three iconic musicians as well as the famous Harlem music venue, the Apollo Theater. -
Printing with printing presses at Claflin University, Orangeburg, S.C.
Photographic digital print of African American's working inside printing presses in the United States. -
FLO-JO World Record Nails
Collection displays artwork that deconstructs traditional fixtures of beauty as an extension of female identity at the intersection of art and feminism. All of Council’s works deal with gender, from the performance of femininity, to societal expectations, to beauty rituals, to the particular challenges for female “elite, manual laborers,” such as athletes and artists.