{"id":17672,"date":"2024-02-22T16:02:21","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T16:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/news\/?p=17672"},"modified":"2024-02-22T16:02:21","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T16:02:21","slug":"exhibitions-on-chicory-magazine-and-baltimores-black-arts-activism-on-view-in-morris-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/news\/2024\/02\/22\/exhibitions-on-chicory-magazine-and-baltimores-black-arts-activism-on-view-in-morris-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibitions on Chicory Magazine and Baltimore\u2019s Black Arts Activism on View in Morris Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In partnership with the Mellon-funded <a href=\"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/poetry-as-activism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Poetry as Activism Project<\/a>, the University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press will host the traveling exhibition <em>Soul of the Butterfly: Chicory Magazine and Baltimore\u2019s Black Arts Activism<\/em>, on view in Room 116 of Morris Library from February 22 through March 25, 2024. The exhibition <em>Poetry as Activism in Conversation with Chicory<\/em> will be on view in conjunction with the traveling exhibition in the Information Room of Morris Library.<\/p>\n<p><em>Soul of the Butterfly<\/em> explores the relationship between poetry and activism in Baltimore, Maryland, and offers the UD community the opportunity to consider this relationship in a Mid-Atlantic regional context.<\/p>\n<p>As shared by the Pratt Library, the exhibition, curated by Mary Rizzo and the Chicory Revitalization Project, \u201cuses <em>Chicory<\/em> [magazine] to tell the story of how Black artist-activists in Baltimore have been making change since the 1960s. Featuring poetry, artwork, and photos, it reminds us why the Baltimore <em>Afro-American<\/em> called <em>Chicory<\/em> \u2018the most authentic microphone of Black folks talking ever devised.\u2019\u201d All issues of <i>Chicory<\/i> magazine are available via <a href=\"https:\/\/collections.digitalmaryland.org\/digital\/collection\/mdcy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Digital Maryland<\/a>. For more information about <em>Chicory<\/em>, watch a short <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7C5ksJbLARQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">video<\/span><\/a> created by the Chicory Revitalization Project.<\/p>\n<p><em>Poetry as Activism in Conversation with Chicory<\/em> showcases how artist-activists used their works as well as community publishing to organize for change. This includes works by <em>Chicory<\/em> editors Sam Cornish and Melvin Edward Brown published by Baltimore-based publishing houses. The exhibition, curated by Petra Clark and Jeannette Schollaert, includes items from Special Collections selected for digitization as part of the Poetry as Activism Project.<\/p>\n<p>For more resources connecting <em>Soul of the Butterfly<\/em> to the Poetry as Activism Project, contact Jeannette Schollaert at <a href=\"mailto:jescholl@udel.edu\">jescholl@udel.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In partnership with the Mellon-funded Poetry as Activism Project, the University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press will host the traveling exhibition Soul of the Butterfly: Chicory Magazine and Baltimore\u2019s Black Arts Activism, on view in Room 116 of Morris &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":17674,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-poetry-as-activism"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-09 15:45:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17673,"href":"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17672\/revisions\/17673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}