Resources
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The art world has a vast amount of sources that provide insight, capture its rich history and offer a chance for us all to learn from wherever we are. Discover cutting edge art historical research, through articles, journals and online exhibitions.
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From art journals to graduate programs, museum collections and books, we’ve provided resources that can introduce you to the field or enhance your current study.
Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration by Nicole Fleetwood
The Obama Portraits by TaÃna Caragol, Dorothy Moss, Richard Powell, Kim Sajet
Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum by Bridget Cooks
Hale Woodruff, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, and the Academy by Amalia K. Amaki, Hale Woodruff, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, Andrea Barnwell Brownlee
Black Art: A Cultural History by Richard J. Powell
Committed to Memory: the Art of the Slave Ship Icon by Cheryl Finley
An American Odyssey: The Life and Work of Romare Bearden by Mary Schmidt Campbell
AUC Offers A Treasure Trove of Beauty, History and Art, Atlanta University Center Consortium
Auburn Avenue Research Library for Black History and CultureÂ
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
The Digital Library of America
James Weldon Johnson Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
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Graduate Programs in Art History
University of California, Irvine
Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships
AUC / SIA Collective Futures Scholarship at Sotheby’s Institute of Art
The Roy Lichtenstein Foundation Post-Baccalaureate Fellowship in Museum Professions