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Art Research Guide

Thank you for visiting the Art Research Guide! This guide was created to support Art undergraduates, MFA students, Art faculty, and researchers interested in the visual arts. Whether you're looking for contemporary art journals, exhibition catalogs, video and media art, images, and more -- the library has you covered! Please don't hesitate to reach out to me with any questions you may have.

New Resource Highlight: The Artforum Archive

Artforum Archive
The Artforum Archive provides full-text digital access to all issues from 1962 through 2020. Artforum was founded in San Francisco in 1962 with an ethos to center the West Coast artists, given that so many prominent art magazines catered to the New York art scene. Atforum features in-depth articles and reviews of contemporary art, as well as book reviews, columns on cinema and popular culture, personal essays, commissioned artworks and essays, and numerous full-page advertisements from prominent galleries around the world.

Writing Resources

Artist's Guide to Grant Writing by Gigi Rosenberg
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 2010
This comprehensive guide includes strategies, anecdotes from successful grant writers, and tips from grant officers and fundraising specialists. The book is targeted at both professional and aspiring writers, performers, and visual artists who need concrete information about how to write winning grant applications and fundraise creatively so that they can finance their artistic careers.
Art-write : the writing guide for visual artists : crafting effective artist statements and promotional materials by Vicki Amorose
Call Number: Langson Library ; N8350 .A46 2013
Publication Date: 2013
Author, artist and media writer Vicki Amorose offers a practical approach for artists to create a professional artist statement. She also covers writing material to represent your work for funding, exhibition material, proposals and websites.
Hands on Research for Artists, Designers and Educators by Harma Staal (Editor); Jojanneke Gijsen (Editor); Miriam Rasch (Editor)
Call Number: *Forthcoming in May 2025*
Publication Date: 2025
This volume presents the Circle of Doing Research: a model to get you started in art and design research. Conceived within the contextual setting of the art school, it is holistic, multidisciplinary and prioritizes practice.