The Jen Library is hosting an Open House this Wednesday, September 28 from 3pm to 7pm. We are highlighting areas of our collection that relate specifically to students in the School of Fashion. We will have a special display of garments from the Jen Library Special Collections as well as circulating fashion-related DVDs. The Visual Resource Center will host digital image database demonstrations, and and the Serials department will have a display of related periodicals and publications. There will be trivia, candy, and special prizes. Please join us for our Open House at Jen Library September 28.
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Below is a sampling of over 400 History of Costume images recently added to the SCAD DID. This comprehensive collection documents the changes in garments and hairstyles from Ancient Egypt through the 1990′s. These images can be easily browsed by selecting the Fashion category and entering “History of Costume” in the Book Source field.
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Below is a sampling of recent additions to the SCAD DID acquired from Scholars Resource, including images of paintings, sculpture, and decorative art objects from the collections of the Louvre, Musee d’Orsay, Pushkin Museum, and Tretyakov Gallery. These images can be easily browsed in the SCAD DID by selecting a Category and entering “Scholars Resource 10086″ in the Archive Source field.
above, clockwise from upper left:
Young Woman Combing Her Hair. 1635. Salomon de Bray. Musee du Louvre, Paris, France
Icon – Saint Simeon. 16th Century. Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Two Cats. 1894. Theophile Steinlen. Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia
The Crucifixion. c.1910. Odilon Redon. Musee d’Orsay, Paris, France
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Below is a sample of recent additions to the SCAD DID acquired from Scholars Resource, including images of paintings from the collections of the Musee du Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Hamburger Kunsthalle, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. These images can be easily browsed in the SCAD DID by selecting a Category and entering “Scholars Resource 10366″ in the Archive Source field.
above, clockwise from upper left:
John Paine. c.1786. Winthrop Chandler. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Model. 1839. Christoffer Eckersberg. Musee du Louvre, Paris
Judith with the Head of Holofernes. 1615. Carlo Saracini. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
A Small Town in the Rhine. August Schlieker. Hamburg Kunsthalle, Hamburg
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Below is a sample of recent additions to the SCAD DID acquired from Scholars Resource, including images of works from the collections of the Musee d’Orsay, Musee du Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Hamburger Kunsthalle, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Also included in this group are images of such architectural sites as the Alhambra, Bauhaus, and Copan. These images can be easily browsed in the SCAD DID by selecting a Category and entering “Scholars Resource 10044″ in the Archive Source field.
above, clockwise from upper left:
Bauhaus. 1925-1926. Walter Gropius
Vessel. 1992. Kioke Shoko. Cleveland Museum of Art
Seated Female Nude. c.1810-1820. Pierre-Paul Prud’hon. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Lamentation. 1485. Carlo Crivelli. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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The VRC will be conducting a workshop for SCAD faculty, staff, and students on Wednesday, April 27, 2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m., Jen Library, room 108. The purpose of this session is to highlight the digital resources that are available to faculty and to demonstrate the fundamentals of using ARTstor to find and save images, to download and organize images from the SCAD Digital Image Database (DID), and how to incorporate these images using the ARTstor Offline Image Viewer (OIV) to create class presentations. Participants will also learn how to have images added to the SCAD DID to fill the needs of specific courses and student presentations.
Seating is limited so please email vrc@scad.edu, or call 525-4726 to reserve a spot.
If you cannot attend, but would like to be shown the operations covered in the training sessions, please call or email the VRC to make an appointment for individual training.
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The Jen Library is hosting an Open House next Wednesday April 20th from 3pm to 7pm. We are highlighting areas of our collection that relate specifically to students in the School of Film, Digital Media, and Performing Arts. We will have a special display of material from the Don Bluth Collection including drawings, cels, storyboards, concept art, backgrounds and photographs from animated features and video games. The Visual Resource Center will host digital image database demonstrations, and and the Serials department will have a display of related periodicals and publications. There will be trivia, cool giveaways, and special prizes. Please join us for our Open House at Jen Library April 20th.
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The VRC will be conducting a workshop for SCAD faculty, staff, and students on Friday, March 11, 2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m., Jen Library, room 108. The purpose of this session is to highlight the digital resources that are available to faculty and to demonstrate the fundamentals of using ARTstor to find and save images, to download and organize images from the SCAD Digital Image Database (DID), and how to incorporate these images using the ARTstor Offline Image Viewer (OIV) to create class presentations. Participants will also learn how to have images added to the SCAD DID to fill the needs of specific courses and student presentations.
Seating is limited so please email vrc@scad.edu, or call 525-4726 to reserve a spot.
If you cannot attend, but would like to be shown the operations covered in the training sessions, please call or email the VRC to make an appointment for individual training.
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Below is a sample of recent additions to the SCAD DID of approx. 70 jewelry objects from various museum collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Kremlin Armoury Museum.
These images can be easily browsed in the SCAD DID by selecting the Jewelry & Personal Category and entering “Scholars Resource 9959″ in the Archive Source field.
above, clockwise from upper left:
The Anastasis. Byzantine, 12th Century. Armoury Museum, Kremlin, Moscow, Russia
Earring with Nike Driving a Two-horse Chariot. Greek, c.35-325 BC. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Necklace. Eugene Fontenay. c.1870. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Frog Pendant. Chiriqui, Costa Rica. c.11th – 16th Century. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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The VRC will be conducting workshops for SCAD faculty, staff, and students on Friday, November 5, 10:00 a.m. – 11.30 a.m., and Tuesday, November 9, 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m., Jen Library, room 108. The purpose of these sessions is to highlight the digital resources that are available to faculty and to demonstrate the fundamentals of using ARTstor to find and save images, to download and organize images from the SCAD Digital Image Database (DID), and how to incorporate these images using the ARTstor Offline Image Viewer (OIV) to create class presentations. Participants will also learn how to have images added to the SCAD DID to fill the needs of specific courses and student presentations.
Seating is limited so please email vrc@scad.edu, or call 525-4726 to reserve a spot.
If you cannot attend, but would like to be shown the operations covered in the training sessions, please call or email the VRC to make an appointment for individual training.
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