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Diversity in Art Books for Reference

Encyclopedia of African American Artists
Call Number: N6538.N5 J44 2009
From traditional media of painting and artists such as Horace Pippin and Faith Ringgold, to photography of Gordon Parks, and new media of Sam Gilliam and Martin Puryear (installation art), the African American experience is reflected across generations and works.
Encyclopedia of Arab American Artists
Call Number: N6538.A73 O94 2008
From traditional media such as painting and calligraphy to more sophisticated media such as digital work and installation.
Encyclopedia of Asian American Artists
Call Number: N6538.A83 H35 2007
Painters, photographers, sculptors, and installation artists are among the seventy-five artists represented in this guide to Asian American artists.
Encyclopedia of Native American Artists
Call Number: N6538.A4 E94 2008
Examines the lives and works of approximately 70 Native American artists, demonstrating the range of media, themes, and experiences of Native artists, and their influences on and by western culture.
St. James Guide to Hispanic Artists
Call Number: N6538.H58 S7 2002
Critical analysis of approximately 400 20th-century Hispanic artists from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Central and South America, and American artists of Spanish descent.
The Queer Encyclopedia of the Visual Arts
Call Number: N72.H64 Q44 2004
A comprehensive work showcasing the enormous contribution of gay, lesbian, transgender and queer artists to painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, sculpture and architecture.
Women, Art, and Society
Call Number: N8354 .C48 2012
Challenges the assumption that great women artists are exceptions to the rule who transcended their sex to produce major works of art. Features a new final chapter that charts the evolution of feminist art history and pedagogy since the 1970s.

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Dark Laboratory
The Dark Laboratory is an engine for collaboration, design, and study of Black and Indigenous ecologies through creative technology. The project is situated at the intersection of scholarship, artistic praxis to examine Indigenous forms of storytelling by centering local and global non-profit community institutions as educators.
Dark Study
Dark Study is an experimental program centered on art. It serves the underserved and underrepresented, teaching art and design as understood through materialism, history, economics, critical theory, and philosophy, all within the context of new technologies.