Contemporary Arts information resources

This guide is intended to provide links to Library guides and selected resources which may be of interest to students and researchers at Simon Fraser University.

Contact info


If you need help, please contact Sylvia Roberts, Liaison Librarian for Communication & Contemporary Arts at 778.782.3681 or sroberts@sfu.ca or Ask a librarian.

Help with course assignments

CA 117 Modern Art History (Fall 2020)

CA 127:  History of Dance from the 20th Century to the Present (Fall 2021)

CA 160  Introductory Studio in Visual Art I (Fall 2020)

CA 312 / 826  Performing Black Identities Across Diasporic Spaces (Summer 2022)

CA 389 Professional practices in the Contemporary Arts (Summer 2022)

CA 812  Literature Research Guide for MFA researchers (Fall 2017)

CA 821 Research Methods in Comparative Media Arts (Fall 2021)

Contemporary Arts subject guides

Recommended sources for databases, journal articles, dictionaries, encyclopedias, online music, videos, images, internet resources and more.

Library media collections

Media collections: Audio, video, and image collection details, locations, borrowing from the collections

New Contemporary Arts books