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Cover of Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-fi and Fantasy Culture

Afrofuturism in the Stacks

Watson Library’s collection of Afrofuturist books
Headshot images of the artists from Godzilla

Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in Watson Library

Highlighting the works of Godzilla, an Asian American arts network
Symposium—Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast, Keynote

Symposium—Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast, Keynote

Listen to Charmaine A. Nelson's Keynote at The Met.

Symposium—Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast, Session 3

Symposium—Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast, Session 3

Examine the representation of beauty in depictions of the Black figure in nineteenth-century Western art.

Symposium—Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast, Session 2

Symposium—Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast, Session 2

Examine how liberty has been represented and misrepresented in Western art through a series of presentations.

Symposium—Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast, Session 1

Symposium—Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast, Session 1

Explore the complexities that arise through acts of witnessing and representing slavery.

NEH grant participants group photo in the reading room

Expanding the Collection

A project to enhance Watson's holdings of works by and about Indigenous American, Hispanic American/Latinx, and Asian American/Pacific Islander artists
Portrait painting of a seated young woman holding a bouquet of flowers and wearing a white blouse and full blue skirt with white lace edging

Four Trailblazing Women Artists

Watson Library celebrates Women's History Month with books by and about four women artists
Futurist mosaic showing two men wielding colored rays around a gear-like spiral

Ukrainian Books in Watson Library

A selection of books about public art and monuments in Ukraine

Building an Archive of Global Surrealism

How a special exhibition expanded Watson Library's holdings of international Surrealism
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