Libraries & Cultural Arts

 

Explore these collections, exhibitions and initiatives —online and in person—to learn more about the richness of the libraries, museums and cultural arts centers at UT. Home to the nation's fifth largest academic library collection, the University's 17 library facilities contain more than 8 million volumes. Nationally renowned centers and museums—such as the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center and the Blanton Museum of Art—offer a variety of exhibitions and attractions throughout the year. Librarians also specialize in cataloging library holdings related to culture and gender, as well as many other forms of diversity.

Libraries

• Digital Library Initiatives
• George Isadore Sánchez Papers
• Border Cultures: Conjunto Music Index
• Américo Paredes Archives
• Perry-Castañeda Library Honorees: Ervin Sewell Perry and Carlos Eduardo Castañeda
• Library Research by Subject
• African and African American Studies
• Asian American Studies
• Australian and New Zealand Studies
• Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection
  • Latin American Studies
  • Mexican American and U.S. Latino Studies
• Middle Eastern Studies
• Slavic and East European Studies
• Women’s and Gender Studies
• Library Services Information for Users with Disabilities
• View a complete list of library research by subject and contact information.

Cultural Arts

Blanton Museum of Art

• Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Latin American Art: Blanton Museum hasGloria Anzaldua one of the leading collections of modern and contemporary Latin American art in the U.S., representing more than 500 of the most significant artists from Mexico, South and Central America, and the Caribbean.

Center for American History

• Flip Schulke: Photojournalist Biography: Flip Schulke is most famous for his photo documentation of the U.S. civil rights movement. He spent almost a decade traveling with and photographing Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders.
• A Gift of Love:  A Celebration of the Life of Almetris Marsh Duren, 1910-2000
• Hook ’em Lady Horns! A Winning Traditions of UT Women’s Athletics
• R.C. Hickman Photographic Archive
• Rhone Family of Fayette County, Texas
• Robert Runyon Photograph Collection of the South Texas Border Area
• “To Whom Was This Sacrifice Useful?”: The Texas Revolution and the Narrative of José Enrique de la Peña

Performing Arts Center

• ArtesAméricas: Part cultural exchange, part education, part pure unbridled entertainment, ArtesAméricas performances treat audiences to the excitement, emotion and color that have, until now in many cases, been out of reach.

Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

• Exhibition celebrates the centennial of Mexican artist Miguel Covarrubias: Ransom Center celebrates the centennial of Mexican artist Miguel Covarrubias’s birth with a commemorative exhibition “Miguel Covarrubias: A Certain Clairvoyance” through April 24, 2005.
• Adrienne Kennedy Archive (African American)
• Amos Tutuola Archive (Nigerian)
• Aunt Dicy Tales: John Biggers’ Drawings For the Folktale
• French Collection
• Isaac Bashevis Singer Archive (Jewish)
• Italian Collection
• Japanese Prints
• Latin American Art
• Modern French Art
• Sueltas (Spanish Drama)
• Vladimir Nabokov Collection
  

Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum

• Radio and Television Remarks Upon Signing the Civil Rights Bill, July 2, 1964

Initiatives and Projects

	Heman Sweatt Symposium on Civil Rights The annual symposium is named for Heman Sweatt, who applied for admission to the School of Law in 1946, but was denied admission on the basis of race. Sweatt, with the help of the NAACP, brought legal action against the university. In the landmark case, Sweatt vs. Painter, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that separate law school facilities could not provide an education equal in quality to that available at the law school. Sweatt entered the law school in September 1950. The Sweatt decision helped pave the way for African Americans to be admitted to formerly segregated colleges and universities across the nation and also led to the overturn of segregation by law in all levels of public education in the landmark case of Brown vs. Board of Education four years later.
	East Austin Stories East Austin Stories is a collaboration between University of Texas at Austin film students and community residents, business people, patrons and passers-by in East Austin. These short documentaries illustrate that East Austin is a network of families, communities and businesses, each with their own stories to tell.
	Barbara Jordan National Forum on Public Policy Barbara Jordan overcame innumerable obstacles to become a lawyer and win elected office as the first African American since Reconstruction to serve in the Texas Senate and then as the first African American woman from the South to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. With her striking oratory, charismatic leadership and dedication to public service, Jordan touched countless lives during her years in government and later as a professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs.
	Latino USA Latino USA, the radio journal of news and culture, is the only national, English-language radio program produced from a Latino perspective. It is a production partnership of KUT Radio and the Center for Mexican American Studies.
	U.S. Latino and Latina World War II Oral History Project This oral history project, a parternship of the School of Journalism and the Center for Mexican American Studies, tells the previously untold stories of Latinos and Latinas and their struggles in World War II.