SCAD Visual Resources Center

1. Go to MySCAD and log in.

2. Once you are in MySCAD, click on the “Resources” tab.

3. Under Department Directory, scroll down and click on “Visual Resource Center”. This will open the VRC web page (there is also a link to the VRC blog).

4. Once you are on the VRC web page you can access the SCAD Digital Image Database and/or ARTstor by clicking on the links listed at the left.

From artforum.com:

“Floods have inundated Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House for the second time in twelve years, reports Jason Edward Kaufman in the Art Newspaper. The 1951 glass-and-steel modernist masterpiece, located sixty miles southwest of Chicago in Plano, Illinois, was breached by more than two feet of water on September 14, as record rainfall from tropical storm Lowell followed by the tail end of hurricane Ike caused the nearby Fox River to rise eight feet above normal, topping the five-foot columns on which the house rests and submerging the deck. “It’s an absolutely devastating scene,” said James Peters, president and chief executive of Landmarks Illinois, which manages and operates the house museum on behalf of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. “We will need to raise funds to begin the clean-up process once the water subsides and to help cover the loss of tour revenue. At this point, we are fairly confident the 2008 tour season, which was scheduled to extend through November, is over,” he said. The two nonprofit organizations plan to assess the damage and begin discussions with insurers. The house last flooded in 1996 and was subsequently restored by van der Rohe’s grandson, Chicago architect Dirk Lohan.”