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On September 7, 2017, we celebrated the opening of the exhibition Abstract Expressionism: Looking East from the Far West at the Honolulu Museum of Art (HoMA). The picture above shows one of the boxes returned to the library from the European/American Art Department a little while ago. The red dots on the folders indicate Artists of Hawai‘i, and they are the most heavily requested artist files among thousands of folders stored in the library.

Many of those Hawai‘i-born artists in the show don’t have national recognition yet they are the local icons whose work is easily seen while driving  … READ FULL POST

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Written by Taylor Barrett, Kristina Bush, and Veronica McGurrin [1]; edited by Samuel Duncan.

Over the 2017-2018 academic year, a group of graduate students at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, including Taylor Barrett, Kristina Bush, and Veronica McGurrin [1],  worked to digitize a collection of research files donated by Lynn Igoe, a noted local scholar of African American art history. Her files form the core of the Sloane Art Library’s Lynn Igoe Memorial African American Artist Files Collection. [2][3]  Alice Whiteside, Director of the Sloane Art Library, and JJ Bauer, Visual Resources Curator and Teaching  … READ FULL POST