SCAD Visual Resources Center

The VRC will be conducting a workshop for SCAD faculty on Friday, October 31, 10 a.m – 11:30 a.m., Jen Library, room 108. The purpose of this workshop 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.

Seating is limited so please email vrc@scad.edu, or call 525-4726 to reserve a spot.

A snapshot of some of our recent acquisitions to the SCAD DID purchased from Scholars Resource. Recent acquisitions include 233 images of objects from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

clockwise from upper left (all collection Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York):

Two Satyrs in a Landscape by Titian
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt by Gerard David. c.1512-1515.
Tahitian Faces by Paul Gauguin. c.1899.
Magnolia and Irises by Tiffany Studios. c.1908.

On Tuesday, October 14, a representative from ARTstor will be visiting SCAD and conducting two training sessions, scheduled as below:

10:30-12:00 pm: ARTstor for information professionals
1:00-3:00 pm: ARTstor training session for faculty members

The morning session will focus on information about the ARTstor administrator tools site and statistics site for the local ARTstor administrator on campus, as well as in-depth information about using ARTstor. Faculty are encouraged to attend the afternoon session, which will be specifically tailored to teaching with ARTstor. However, the morning session is open to both staff and faculty unable to attend the afternoon session.

Both sessions will be held in the Jen Library, room 108. Seating is limited so please email vrc@scad.edu, or call 525-4726 to reserve a spot for either session.