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Curated by Flaxman Librarians
Anti-Racism + Black Lives Matter: Reflecting & Revising
Asian, Asian-American Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Designed Objects Decolonized Curriculum
Latinx/e/a/o Heritage Month
LGBTQIA+ Vitrual Pop-up
Curated by the Office of Multicultural Affairs
Learn & Unlearn: Anti-racism Resource Guide
Other Ways to Search for Writing Using Flaxman Library
SAIC's John M. Flaxman Library is a great starting point for relevant texts. Library staff collaborate with every program at the School to support teaching, learning and research across the entire curriculum at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Hundreds of thousands of books, magazines, movies and sound recordings are available on interdisciplinary topics in late 20th and 21st century art and design, with several thousand new items added annually. A continuously growing number of scholarly resources are available online, including ebooks, ejournals, databases, digital images and streaming videos.
Use the search box below to find almost everything the library has to offer, or visit the library homepage. Checkout the How to Find Books page for step-by-step directions + a video demonstration for finding books in Flaxman Library.
PRO TIP: remember to sign in with your ARTIC login.
Consider these pre-made searches: race and "contemporary art” | “African American” art | decolonizing art | Latinx art
Borrowing Books Beyond SAIC
If you cannot find what you're looking for at Flaxman, see the links below for other services that are available.
Databases
Don’t forget about the databases that Flaxman Library licenses and makes available to the SAIC community through your ARTIC login. Here’s a few of the best bets:
Includes the full-text of many contemporary art magazines (e.g., Artforum International) plus scholarly journals in the visual and performing arts, literature and the humanities.