PSCC Libraries: Art: Web Resources

Web Resources

CAA: College Art Association
Includes newsletters, conferences, job opportunities, and grant information.
American Institute of Graphic Arts
AIGA, the professional association for design, believes designers serve a critical role as communicators, educators and innovators. AIGA sets the national agenda for the role of design in economic, social, political, cultural and creative contexts.
Tennessee Arts Commission
Through a variety of programs, the Commission has encouraged excellence in artistic expression through the state's artists and arts organizations. That commitment has continued to expand through the years to ensure that the citizens of Tennessee have access to, and the opportunity to participate in the arts.
Tennessee Art Education
This dynamic association is where visual arts teachers, scholars, researchers and professors, students, administrators, and art museum educators, and artists come together around a shared belief in the power of the arts in developing human potential.
The Arts & Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville
The Alliance's membership represents an amazing variety of performing arts venues and organizations, historical attractions, and museums. Working together, they celebrate and serve East Tennessee's history, community, and future.

Archives of American Art
The Archives of American Art image gallery contains over 8,000 photographs, letters, sketches, diaries, and other documents that have been scanned and individually described.
The Getty Conservation Institutie
The GCI works internationally to advance conservation practice in the visual arts - broadly interpreted to include objects, collections, architecture, and sites. The Institute serves the conservation community through scientific research, education and training, model field projects, and the dissemination of the results of both its own work and the work of others in the field.
High Museum of Art
"The High Museum of Art is the leading art museum in the southeastern United States. Located in Midtown Atlanta's arts and business district, the High has more than 13,000 works of art in its permanent collection. The Museum has an extensive anthology of 19th- and 20th century American art; significant holdings of European paintings and decorative art; a growing collection of African American art; and burgeoning collections of modern and contemporary art, photography and African art. The High is also dedicated to supporting and collecting works by Southern artists and is distinguished as the only major museum in North America to have a curatorial department specifically devoted to the field of folk and self-taught art."
National Gallery of Art (Open Access)
The NGA has released thousands of digital images of artwork now in the public domain.
National Gallery of Art: Index of American Design
The Index of American Design consists of approximately 18,000 watercolor renderings of
American decorative arts objects from the colonial period through the nineteenth century.
Produced between 1935 and 1942, this visual archive reflects the expanding interest in
American material culture that began to emerge at that time.

Online news and blog sites where you can find reviews of current art shows and art criticism essays. These are not scholarly resources.

Art + Culture
Art+Culture is the portal for artistic knowledge and discovery. People across all of the arts come together to learn, connect, and share.
ArtDaily
"The First Art Newspaper on the Net."
Blouin ARTINFO
Blouin ARTINFO is the online destination of Louise Blouin Media, the world’s leading cultural media group. Each day, ARTINFO.com offers breaking news, profiles of top and emerging artists, stories about collectors and collecting, gallery round-ups from around the world, the best of student art, market trends and analysis, and detailed coverage of art fairs.

Internet Reference Resources that can be useful for finding quick answers to simple questions about artists, art history, and art movements. Be aware that the following resources are not scholarly.

Smarthistory
Open educational resource for art history. Introductory art history content is freely available to anyone, anywhere. Offers nearly 500 videos and these are being translated into dozens of languages.
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
The Met’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
pairs essays and works of art with chronologies, telling the story of art and global culture through the Museum’s collection.
Mapping Gothic France
Database of photographs, maps, plans, and narrative textual information about the many cathedrals in France, and some in England, that began to be constructed in the 12th-13th centuries.

Five Criteria For Evaluating Web Pages
From Cornell University Library
Evaluating Sources
Basic principles for evaluating resources from Duke University.