Research Guides: Art: Underrepresented Voices

About This Tab

Welcome! This research guide is designed to help Art, Architecture and Design faculty find and use resources from underrepresented voices in their classrooms.

The resources on this page are not a comprehensive list of everything that is available in the library. To find more, try searching the catalog for a specific author or title, or consult with the subject librarian.

Contact

Want to discuss your research needs, classroom resources, or collection development? Is there a resource that this page should be spotlighting?

Please contact Nicole Fox, the liaison to the Art, Architecture and Design Departments, by email at nicole.fox@belmont.edu.

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Reading Lists

Black Art Library
Instagram feed featuring works by and about Black artists.
The Fashion and Race Database
A "comprehensive resource that sought to help students, educators, researchers, designers, business professionals and the pedestrian audience learn about the intersections of fashion and race. The goal for the database is to center and amplify BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) fashion scholarship, illuminate under-examined histories and address racism throughout the fashion system."
Women Writing About Architecture Reading List
From Dr Harriet Harriss, School of Architecture, Royal College of Art.

Articles and Other Resources of Interest

Black Females in Architecture
"A network and enterprise founded to increase the visibility of black and black mixed heritage females within architectural industry and other built environment fields."
Co-constructing a Liberated / Decolonised Arts Curriculum
"This article presents a case study of liberating reading lists through a staff-student collaboration in a UK arts university. It characterizes reading lists as a familiar but under researched feature of academic life and discusses their practical and symbolic role in maintaining Western / Eurocentric / White disciplinary canons, and how they inform what it means to be ‘well read’ in a discipline."
What Does “Queering Design Education” Actually Look Like in Practice?
"Design educator Nicole Killian on creating a safe space for designers to get excited about design again"