Bridwell Art Library

Bridwell Art Library The Margaret M. Bridwell Art Library contains the University of Louisville's research collection in art, design, and architecture.

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Emancipation Day celebration, June 19, 1900 held in "East Woods" on East 24th Street in Austin. Credit: Austin History C...
06/19/2026

Emancipation Day celebration, June 19, 1900 held in "East Woods" on East 24th Street in Austin. Credit: Austin History Center.

ID: Photograph of African-American band at Emancipation Day celebration, June 19, 1900, held in "East Woods" on East 24th Street in Austin. Mrs. Grace Murray Stephenson kept a diary of the day's events, which she later sold to the San Francisco Chronicle, which wrote a full-page feature on it.

Bridwell Art Library will be closed tomorrow Friday, June 19th, in observance of Juneteenth.ID: Graphic with the a black...
06/18/2026

Bridwell Art Library will be closed tomorrow Friday, June 19th, in observance of Juneteenth.
ID: Graphic with the a black box and text that reads “Bridwell Art Library will be closed Friday, June 19, 2025”

You've been enjoying summer, we've been filling our New Books shelves.ID: A color photo of colorful art book covers.
06/17/2026

You've been enjoying summer, we've been filling our New Books shelves.

ID: A color photo of colorful art book covers.

Did you know the Art Library has free book jackets? Now you do!ID: A color photo of a box of colorful book jackets.
06/16/2026

Did you know the Art Library has free book jackets? Now you do!

ID: A color photo of a box of colorful book jackets.

New Book Highlight!!Q***r Histories2025São Paulo, Brazil : MASP, Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, 2025....
06/15/2026

New Book Highlight!!

Q***r Histories
2025
São Paulo, Brazil : MASP, Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, 2025.

Art Library
New Books
N72.S49 Q337 2025
From MASP Exhibition website. -"The current global landscape for q***r and trans people is uneven: acceptance, solidarity, and visibility exist alongside hatred, censorship, and outright legal prohibition in different parts of the world. Thus, on the one hand, greater attention to Le***an, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Q***r, Intersex, and Asexual (LGBTQIA+) issues has created increased opportunities for openly q***r and trans artists and thinkers. On the other hand, LGBTQIA+ people around the world--impacted differently by race, class, gender, age, nationality--continue to face repression. Within this context, Q***r Histories gathers works that thematize q***r topics or are made by LGBTQIA+ artists, activists, and researchers. The show celebrates the richness and multiplicity of q***r creativity in the visual arts, aligned with MASP's mission which defines the museum as 'diverse, inclusive and plural.' Not every artist in the exhibition identifies as LGBTQIA+; rather the show treats q***rness expansively, as a lens that lets us see the world differently."
ID: A color photo of a colorful art book cover.

Construction Update Week 6: Framing is in progress!ID: A color photo of window framing under construction.
06/12/2026

Construction Update Week 6: Framing is in progress!

ID: A color photo of window framing under construction.

We sometimes like basketball here at the Art Library. So we want to share the latest Art But Make It Sports post featuri...
06/11/2026

We sometimes like basketball here at the Art Library. So we want to share the latest Art But Make It Sports post featuring the cast Laocoön and his sons.

You can find more about Laocoön and His Sons here in the library in books like
The Art Book
2017 First American edition.
New York, New York : DK Publishing, 2017.

Art Library
Book Stacks
N5300 .B93 2017

ID: Against a blue background, is two side by side photos of sports photography ana sculpture.

New Art books are waiting to be put on the shelf!ID: A color photo of colorful art book covers on a book cart.
06/10/2026

New Art books are waiting to be put on the shelf!

ID: A color photo of colorful art book covers on a book cart.

Based on our shelving cart, here's what people are reading this summer. ID: A color photo of colorful art books on a boo...
06/09/2026

Based on our shelving cart, here's what people are reading this summer.

ID: A color photo of colorful art books on a book cart.

Happy Monday Cards! Check out another book from our Artists' Books Fierce P***y.2026Brooklyn, NY : Primary Information,...
06/08/2026

Happy Monday Cards! Check out another book from our Artists' Books

Fierce P***y.
2026
Brooklyn, NY : Primary Information, 2026.

Art Library
Rare Books Collection - Artists’ Books
N7433.35.U6 F54 2026

From the publisher, Primary Information- "This eponymously titled publication by fierce p***y brings together thirty-nine of the legendary art collective's posters, from works made in the urgent early days of the AIDS crisis to present-day advocacy for Q***r and Trans rights. In keeping with fierce p***y's activism in public spaces, the publication is designed to allow readers to tear out any of the posters to share, wheatpaste, scan, photocopy, and distribute or to easily open the book to any page to hang it on a wall. Combining calls for political and social action, proud reclamations of derogatory language, and pointed questions, the posters in fierce p***y address pressing sociopolitical issues in the group's distinctive voice."

ID: A color photo of an open artist book.

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Louisville, KY
40292

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Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

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