CalArts Library

The Main Library and Film Library will be closed today (8/14) due to facility maintenance issues.

Latin Fest 2024 is here! While participating in the fun events happening this week, take a little time to enjoy some of these great books too!

We'll be closing at 5pm tonight. Apologies for the inconvenience! Film services will remain open tonight until 10:30pm.

We have a new friend in the library! Come say hi if you would like😍

some of our newest books up on our Palestine/Israel display come check it out

It's Black History Month! Come thru and check out our display and pick up some books, CDs, LPs, and more!

The main library will be closed today
due to unforeseen circumstances. We apologize for the convenience!

Join us today in the library at noon for Care Labs: On Renewal. Active rest sessions exploring breath work and wellness in dialogue with feminist readings. Inspired by the work of bell hooks.

We've put together some resources to help with understanding what is and has been happening in Palestine. You can find a book display at the main library (all items are available for checkout) as well as a QR code which will take you to a list of eBooks and films available to you through our catalog.

New Books are out!

New Books just dropped! You can find them across from the library front desk 👻

New books for the new Semester! Find them across from the library front desk!

The CalArts Library will be closed today! We apologize for any inconvenience! We will reopen tomorrow at 1:00pm

The Librarians have pulled a lot of fascinating materials inspired by Visions2030. Stop by and take a look!

Our BFA Orientation Scavenger Hunt was a blast! Thanks to everyone for participating and cheers to our winners!

Repost :
"Of course, artists’ books are not always produced affordably, or in edition. Many works are unique, rare, even fetishistic, activating the so-called auratic qualities of one-of-a-kind pieces of fine art and falling perhaps more neatly within the long tradition of the fine press. Therein lies the implicit reductive violence of definition. The form is expansive, challenging classification by design, and formally varied; some of my favorite artists’ books don’t look like books very much at all. [...] In my professional effort to make these artworks accessible, I’m forced to obliterate their complexities, their potentialities, the fount of their power."

Artists' books printed in multiples achieved deep emotional resonance when infused with the care and craft characteristic to the feminist art movement. The Women's Graphic Center, housed at the Woman's Building in downtown Los Angeles, evolved into a dynamic ecosystem of print art experimentation, providing feminist artists the tools and community to innovatively approach the book form. With the return of L.A. Art Book Fair just one week away, writer and art librarian Sam Regal (.biz) positions these works within California print history and interrogates the problematics of their reductive library classification and belated institutional embrace as feminist art objects.

Read "Democracy of Feeling: Auratic Artists' Books at the Woman's Graphic Center" at the link in bio.

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Images:
1. Wanda Westcoast, “Womanhouse: Nurturant Kitchen, Curtains,” 1972. CalArts Library & Institute Archives.
2. Feminist Studio Workshop Day One, 1973. CalArts Library & Institute Archives.
3. Suzanne Lacy, R**e Is, 1976. CalArts Artists’ Books Collection.
4. Susan King, Letter Portfolio, 1976. CalArts Artists’ Books Collection.
5. The Woman’s Building, North Spring Street, Los Angeles, photographed in 1983 by Chris Gulker, courtesy of the Herald-Examiner Collection, LAPL.

The new books are still pouring in! We are open all summer!

We have even more new books today!

New Books in the library today! These books can be found across from the circulation desk

Welcome to CalArts, CSSSA! We are so excited to have you!

It’s Disability Pride Month! Take a look at some of these amazing books and artists we have in our collection

We close at 5pm today and after this weekend, we'll also be closed on Monday 7/3 and Tuesday 7/4. We'll be back on Wednesday next week!

New Books!!

Hey! Happy Pride Month! Celebrate with some of these fantastic reads Library

New books! 🥹

New books are still pouring in! They can be found across from the front desk. One of them even features an essay written by our very own Reference and Instruction Librarian, Sam Regal!

So many New Books this week! They can all be found across from the front desk in the library 🥹

New books! You can find them by the front desk 📚

Monday, April 10th
12PM
Library Computer Lab

Sunny Mira Iyer is an editor / curator / art worker based in New York. She is the Program Director at Wendy's Subway, a reading room, library, and independent publisher in Bushwick, Brooklyn. She has been part of the organization since 2017. There, she organizes writing workshops, reading groups, poetry readings, performances, residencies for publishers/collectives, and much more.
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She is also the Fairs & Editions Coordinator at Printed Matter, where she works full-time. There, she organizes the NY & LA Art Book Fairs with Sonel Breslav, the Director of Fairs & Editions. She also works in their editions program, where she works with artists to produce prints that fundraise for the organization.

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