Caribbean Art and Visual Culture

Covers fine, decorative and commercial art, folk art, photography, film, and architecture, and also includes a database-specific thesaurus

Provides full-text access to the archives of core scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences.

Catalog Search results will include everything in our physical collection (books, audio, video, maps, musical scores, archival materials, and more), as well as materials available online such as electronic books, streaming audio and video, and online journals.

Provides access to to information on art and artists known in the Caribbean, the Americas, and Europe, as well as popular artists in Jamaica. This guide spans Jamaican art from Pre-Columbian to the present and covers both print and web resources, which are broken up by subject and, in some cases, medium.

Enthusiastic collector Theresa Roberts, displays her vast collection of Jamaican artist’s work. Her goal is promote Jamaica artists internationally. The images are not high resolution but sufficient for online viewing. A nice feature is all of the exhibition catalogues from Art Jamaica shows have been scanned and uploaded to the website for viewing.

Started in 2006, this blog, maintained by Jamaican artist Oneika Russell, discusses contemporary Jamaican and international art.

Uses guidebooks, monographs, atlases, maps, photographs, and other visual resources to show how city planning, historical events, and shifts in immigration changed the streets and culture of the Kingston, Jamaica from it’s inception to the 21st century. It aims to provide researchers with key resources to further explore this area and these topics.

This authoritative blog is written by Caribbean art historian Dr. Petrine Archer-Straw. It includes frequently updated Diaspora Dialogs blog where she critiques and discusses both historical and modern topics in Caribbean art history. The Caribbean Artist A-Z write ups merely give the researcher a taste of the artists concepts and education; however, the database is extensive and includes over a hundred artists.

Using short essays and illustration, maps and group statements, this website tries to address the different aspects of slavery on the Caribbean islands colonized by the English and the French.

An exhibit by the National Archives the United Kingdom that explores the history of the British Caribbean through government documents, photographs and maps dating from the 17th century to the 1920s.

Maps collected here date from 1564 through the present. The majority of maps in this collection document a colonial past. Maps in this collection include island, municipal, county and parish maps as well as maps depicting the region more broadly.

Provided by the British Library, this collection contain over 1,200 images, maps and texts from the 18th and 19th centuries reveal contrasting experiences of life in the former British colonies.

This database includes speeches, interviews, etc., by Fidel Castro from 1959 to 1996.

With resources held in the University of Miami Libraries Cuban Heritage Collection, these digital collections include with digital manuscripts, photographs, letters, maps and other.

A collaborative effort between multiple international institutions in the USA, South America and the Caribbean, this free digital library provides the user access to digitized versions of Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials currently held in archives, libraries, and private collections in multiple languages. Collections of interest are the dLOC: Caribbean Map Collection and the Caribbean Newspaper Digital Library (CNDL).

A website created at the University of Miami that investigated the question how do bound people become free. There is a section on Afro Carribean art.

Provides access to primary sources and critical documents tracing the development of twentieth-century art in Latin America and among Latino populations in the United States. Countries featured in the first phase of this multiyear project include Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and Latino USA.

Created and maintained by the Getty Research Institute, this free structured vocabulary database makes searching artists incredibly easy. This annually updated hierarchical database is set up in list form and like a thesaurus. This database lists not only biographical information about artists, but includes lists of people related to them including spouses, children, and teachers, and links to records of those people, links to information on the cities the artist was born and died in, and sources and contributions, which features dictionaries and databases a user can search within to do further research.