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.
This guide lists selected print and electronic information sources available to SFU faculty, students, and staff. Check the SFU Library Catalogue to find additional materials.
Course reserves
Search for reserves in the Library Catalogue by course number or instructor. Course reserves for Contemporary Arts (prefix CA) can be found by searching Course ID contains CA.
Topic and course guides
FPA 127 History of Dance from the 20th Century to the Present (Fall 2021)
New resources
Lists of new Contemporary Arts resources added to the SFU Library are updated on a monthly basis. You can also browse through lists of all resources added to the library within the last week or the last month.
- Be the artist : the interactive guide to a lasting art career /
- Kehinde Wiley : the world stage : Haiti = Sèn mondyal la Ayiti /
- Art writing in crisis /
- Postdramatic theatre and India : theatre-making since the 1990s.
- As we rise : photography from the Black Atlantic /
- The dramaturgy of space /
- Gillian Wearing : wearing masks /
- Kehinde Wiley : a new republic /
- Out of the sun : on race and storytelling /
- Sensation : the Madonna, the mayor, the media and the First Amendment /
- Sound work : composition as critical technical practice /
- A brief history of Black British art /
- Deana Lawson /
- American silence : the photographs of Robert Adams /
- Collaborative embodied performance : ecologies of skill /
- Sound is liquid : Wolfgang Tillmans /
- Ed Atkins : get life/love's work /
- Paper graveyards /
- The national imaginarium : a history of Egyptian filmmaking /
- Best pick : a journey through film history and the Academy Awards /
- The moment of speech creative articulation for actors /
- Call and response /
- Slow spatial research : chronicles of radical affection /
- Humana Festival 2019 : the complete plays /
- Everyday play /
- Existential science fiction /
- Sender and receiver : Christian Jankowski /
- Kehinde Wiley at the National Gallery : the prelude /
- Screendance from Film to Festival : Celebration and Curatorial Practice /
- Agnes Denes : absolutes and intermediates /