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Artle – the daily art exploration game. Discover artwork and guess the artist in 4 tries. A new artist puzzle is available daily.

Artle #Artle February 16, 2026 🎨 🟩 ⬜ ⬜ ⬜ www.nga.gov/Artle

Artle – the daily art exploration game. Discover artwork and guess the artist in 4 tries. A new artist puzzle is available daily.

Artle #Artle February 14, 2026 🎨 🟩 ⬜ ⬜ ⬜ www.nga.gov/Artle

Artle – the daily art exploration game. Discover artwork and guess the artist in 4 tries. A new artist puzzle is available daily.

Artle #Artle February 13, 2026 🎨 🟥 🟩 ⬜ ⬜ www.nga.gov/Artle

Artle – the daily art exploration game. Discover artwork and guess the artist in 4 tries. A new artist puzzle is available daily.

Artle #Artle February 12, 2026 🎨 🟩 ⬜ ⬜ ⬜ www.nga.gov/Artle

Me too. I saw her in concert in 2015 and she was amazing!

Artle – the daily art exploration game. Discover artwork and guess the artist in 4 tries. A new artist puzzle is available daily.

Artle #Artle February 10, 2026 🎨 🟩 ⬜ ⬜ ⬜ www.nga.gov/Artle

Text of Alice Walker’s poem “Be Nobody’s Darling”

enslavement. Her definition of Womanism expanded boundaries for me in thinking about Black women and feminism. The Color Purple is one of my favorite books. In addition to being an essayist and novelist, Walker is also a poet and wrote one of my favorites, which I’ll share here: #BHM

The ninth day of Black History Month is Alice Walker’s birthday. Her work has been foundational to me as an art historian. “In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens” argues for the reclamation of quotidian forms of beauty as art. It revolutionized how I think about Black women’s cultural production during

Free features a standing female figure in a quilt-patterned dress that refers to the paintings to John Biggers. Her leather jacket and pin nod to the Black Panthers. Her hair is inspired by Esi Sagay’s African Hairstyles: Styles of Yesterday and Today. #BHM

Book cover: Charting the Afrofuturist Imaginary in African American Art

The art of Robert Pruitt is a portal to Black histories and Black futures. Free immediately captivated me, and I used it as the cover for my first book. He depicts Black people with such beauty and care. #BHM

I teach this with my art appreciation students every semester. Thank you!

The Obama Portraits and the History of African American Portraiture Like many African American portraitists, Amy Sherald and Kehinde Wiley represent the Obamas as themselves, and as more than themselves.

This is a good day to share my 2018 essay on the Obama portraits and the history of African American portraiture.

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Thank you! 😊

Video stills of A Different World with Whitley and an artist

The seventh day of Black History Month is also my birthday, so I want to share MY (BLACK/ART) HISTORY: WHY I BECAME AN ART HISTORIAN elizabethcarmelhamilton.blogspot.com/2016/06/my-b... #BHM

Artle – the daily art exploration game. Discover artwork and guess the artist in 4 tries. A new artist puzzle is available daily.

Artle #Artle February 7, 2026 🎨 🟩 ⬜ ⬜ ⬜ www.nga.gov/Artle

Me too!

Artle – the daily art exploration game. Discover artwork and guess the artist in 4 tries. A new artist puzzle is available daily.

Artle #Artle February 06, 2026 🎨 🟥 🟩 ⬜ ⬜ www.nga.gov/Artle

You are so lucky!

Saar’s inspirations range from literature to Africana religions to Greek mythology. Grow’d (2019) was inspired by Topsy in Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Instead of the prop and joke that Harriet Beecher Stowe set Topsy up to be, Saar empowers her in the service of her people. #BHM

Today is artist Alison Saar’s birthday. She is one of my favorite artists, because of the voice she gives to Black women’s lives in her sculptures and prints. I remember seeing her work for the first time as an undergrad and feeling seen. #BHM

Alison Saar’s Grow’d: a seated figure with cotton hair hi holding cotton and a sickle

Alison Saar with her sculpture Deluge

Carter G. Woodson chose February for Black History Week initially because of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglas’s birthdays. Now that we celebrate the whole month, we can see all the Black luminaries who were also born in February. #BHM

Video still of Pierre Bennu’s Black Moses Barbie

On the fourth day of Black History Month, I am still enamored by Pierre Bennu’s Black Moses Barbie. The faux commercials follow Harriet Tubman on a quest to free enslaved people. The skits are witty and challenge how we remember the heroine in public memory.
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Artle – the daily art exploration game. Discover artwork and guess the artist in 4 tries. A new artist puzzle is available daily.

Artle #Artle February 4, 2026 🎨 🟩 ⬜ ⬜ ⬜ www.nga.gov/Artle

“The grammar of black
feminist futurity is a performance of a future that hasn’t yet happened but
must.”—

Dr. Tina Campt, ‘Listening to Images’

Moorhead and Marshall’s images are in conversation with each other, especially as the US approaches its 250th birthday. Both artists emphasize that Wheatley is literate and learned, but Marshall’s version returns our gaze. #BHM

Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw writes beautifully about the frontispiece in The Art of Remembering, and places the work in the context of Revolutionary America. The stamp is even more special because it is drawn by Kerry James Marshall, who is known for his emphatically beautiful and black figures. #BHM

Frontispiece of Phillis Wheatley by Scipio Moorhead

Phillis Wheatley stamp by Kerry James Marshall

Book cover: The Art of Remembering by Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw

Getting my Phillis Wheatley stamps yesterday made me want to focus on her today. Her frontispiece in Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773) was drawn by Scipio Moorhead, a Black artist who was trained by his enslaver. #BHM

USPS Announces Kerry James Marshall Stamp for 2026 | David Zwirner The United States Postal System has unveiled the 49th Black Heritage stamp featuring artwork by Kerry James Marshall.

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Cover of Art as Sanctuary: Conjuring an Africana Aesthetic by Michael D. Harris. A white cover with a light blue gradient featuring a piece of art showing Africana aesthetics. The art features the face of a woman in blue with a cowrie shell drawn on her forehead. The title is in a red serif font in the bottom left corner. Below this is the subtitle in a thinner black type. The author's name is below the subtitle in all caps in a sans serif type. In the top left corner the editors, introduction authors, and foreword writer are given in italics.

Take a look at all our great new books coming out this February, including "Art as Sanctuary,” written by Michael D. Harris and edited by Dianne M. Stewart and Theophus H. Smith. The full lineup is on our blog: buff.ly/yFB1kAQ

I got my Phillis Wheatley stamps! #BHM