Thousands of iconic images of African American authors, athletes, artists and activists will soon be easier to access and explore, thanks to a three-year grant from the Getty Foundation for Black Visual Arts Archives. The Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University recently received the $280,000 grant to process the Read More …
“Who are you? What do you care deeply about in the world?” These are the questions posed by photographer Dawoud Bey to members of the campus community when he commenced The Emory Project in 2010. This project followed his highly regarded exhibition “Class Pictures” that featured profiles of individual high school students from three very Read More …
Emory Libraries is supporting the Atlanta Science Festival with an exhibit and workshop at the Science Commons in the Atwood Chemistry Center. “Art and Science of Light: Cyanotype and Photograms” displays the history and process of photography’s early years. Developed in 1842 by the English scientist Sir John Herschel, cyanotype was one of the first Read More …
Share Related Story: MARBL Blog entry about John Biggers, another African American artist whose collections are housed in MARBL Related Links: Edwin A. Harleston Finding Aid African AmericanCollections at MARBL Join the discussion As a literary scholar, I find it refreshing to take on historical projects in my second life as a graduate student Read More …
