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Art & Art History
Find authoritative sources for your art / art history paper or project.
Resources for Research
What are your options for accessing authoritative information resources after graduation?
- Use the UTSA Libraries computers in person as a guest
- Public libraries have print and online sources you can use if you have a library card
- Find authoritative free online sources listed on this and other guides
- Look for other authoritative information on the Internet by evaluating sources
- San Antonio Public LibraryGet a library card and borrow books and DVDs at a SAPL Library. Access more than 100 databases online .
- BiblioTech Digital LibraryBexar County's BiblioTech Digital Library offers access to many online resources from your computer or smart device. You must be a Bexar County resident to register. If you are a UTSA student, or faculty or staff member you qualify. Register for an account.
- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) This link opens in a new windowA directory to free, full-text, peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly journals published on the Internet in a variety of academic subjects. All journals included use a funding model that does not charge readers or their institutions for access.
- Open and Free Content on JSTOR and ArstorExplore a growing collection of open access journals and e-books.
- JSTOR Access for IndividualsProvides links to use JSTOR's free Early Journal Content and Register and Read program. Premium content is also available for a fee.
Looking for Opportunities
- The Big Artist Opportunities ListA list of residencies, grant funding, and galleries compiled and maintained by artist Everest Pipkin.
Marketing Yourself
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The Graphic Designer's Guide to Portfolio Design by Call Number: NC1001 .M94 2014The portfolio process, start to finish, with sample portfolios, interviews with leaders in graphic design and advertising industries, and step-by-step instruction for creating professional print and digital portfolios.
Writing the Artist Statement: Revealing the True Spirit of Your Work by Call Number: N8600 .G65 2002
Art/Work: Everything You Need to Know (and Do) As You Pursue Your Art Career by Call Number: N6505 .B575 2009Covers business basics such as tracking inventory, preparing invoices; registering copyright, drafting consignment forms; how to use promotional tools like websites & business cards; and how to approach career decisions such as choosing the right venue to show your work.
Stayin' Alive: Survival Tactics for the Visual Artist by Call Number: NK4235 .H66 2003Of particular interest to those working in ceramics/pottery.
Books That Inspire
These are some suggested readings from your Art instructors for those times when you feel "stuck" as you look for ideas, inspiration, motivation, etc....
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Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art by Call Number: BH301.C84 N33 1990
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Call Number: NC730 .E34 2012b
The Courage to Create by Call Number: BF408 .M33 1994
Leon Battista Alberti: On Painting by Available as an e-book
Art and Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking by Call Number: N71 .B37 1993
Ways of Seeing by Call Number: N7430.5 .W39 1973
Destruction of the Father / Reconstruction of the Father: Writings and Interviews, 1923-1997 by Call Number: NB237 .B65 A2 1998
The View from the Studio Door: How Artists Find Their Way in an Uncertain World by Call Number: N71 .O74 2006
Letters to a Young Poet by Call Number: PT2635.I65 A6 2013
Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: Over Thirty Years of Conversations with Robert Irwin by Call Number: N6537.I64 W4 2008
101 Things to Learn in Art School by Call Number: N325 .W49 2011
A Room of One's Own by Call Number: PN471 .W6
The Creative Habit: Learn it and Use it For Life by Call Number: BF408 .T415 2006
The Artist as Culture Producer: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life by Call Number: NX180.A77 A749 2017
