Art, Activism, Social and Environmental Justice: Art & Activism
Resources related to artistic practices, activism, social and environmental justice issues. Use the tabs to toggle between pages.
Art & Activism Books
- Art and activism : projects of John and Dominique de Menil byPublication Date: 2010
- Black Panther : the revolutionary art of Emory Douglas byPublication Date: 2006
- Living as form : socially engaged art from 1991-2011 byPublication Date: 2012
- Paint the Revolution byPublication Date: 2016
- Show and tell : a chronicle of Group Material byPublication Date: 2010
- Brecht on theatre : the development of an aesthetic byPublication Date: 1978
- Waiting for Godot in New Orleans : a field guide byPublication Date: 2010
- At a distance : precursors to art and activism on the Internet byPublication Date: 2005
- Staging Femininities byPublication Date: 1999
- Photography as activism : images for social change byPublication Date: 2012
- Photography changes everything byPublication Date: 2012
- Photographs objects histories : on the materiality of images byPublication Date: 2004
- Education byPublication Date: 2011
- Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education byPublication Date: 1996
- Conversation pieces : community and communication in modern art byPublication Date: 2004
- The politics of aesthetics : the distribution of the sensible byPublication Date: 2006
- Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism byPublication Date: 2008
- Design futuring : sustainability, ethics, and new practice byPublication Date: 2009
- Design activism : beautiful strangeness for a sustainable world byPublication Date: 2009
- Small Scale, Big Change byPublication Date: 2010
Library Resources
- Prism CatalogSearch for books, ebooks, movies, articles, magazines, images and more in the SVA Library.
- A-Z DatabasesFind millions of articles and images using our e-resources.
- Research Tools & Information LiteracyA guide to doing research, evaluating sources, writing, citing, plagiarism, and copyright.
Arts Websites
- Art and FeminismWe are students, librarians, professors, artists, art workers, and art lovers who create meaningful changes to the body of knowledge available about women on Wikipedia.
- Heresies PDF ArchiveThe archive of the feminist art collective, The Heresies, published from 1977-1993.
- Interference ArchiveAn archive consisting of many kinds of objects (posters, flyers, publications, photographs, books, T-shirts and buttons, moving images, audio recordings, and other materials) that are created as part of social movements by the participants themselves.
- Newsreel FilmsA rare, and rather complete collection of the early films made by Newsreel (aka: Camera News Inc.) in the late 1960's. This body of work is available, both on Beta, 3/4 inch and VHS formats. The majority of the archives are concerned with the political movements of the '60's through '80's.
- Printed MatterA non-profit store that circulates over 32,000 publications annually on behalf of artists and small presses.
- Visual AIDSFounded in 1988, Visual AIDS is the only contemporary arts organization fully committed to raising AIDS awareness and creating dialogue around HIV issues today, by producing and presenting visual art projects, exhibitions, public forums and publications - while assisting artists living with HIV/AIDS. We are committed to preserving and honoring the work of artists with HIV/AIDS and the artistic contributions of the AIDS movement. We embrace diversity and difference in our staff, leadership, artists and audiences.
Archival Collections
- Design of Dissent CollectionLocated in the Milton Glaser Design Study Center and Archives at SVA Library, this collection contains design objects that were part of an exhibition organized by Mirko Ilic and Milton Glaser in 2005. The Archives are open to everyone by appointment.
- Design of Dissent byPublication Date: 2005The corresponding book to the archives' Design of Dissent Collection.
Streaming Documentaries
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