The VRC will be conducting a workshop for SCAD faculty, staff, and students on Tuesday, October 12, 10:00 a.m. – 11.30 a.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 sampling of over 60 slides donated to SCAD by Earle W. Newton that have been scanned and added to the SCAD DID. Included are images of English country architecture photographed in the 1950′s, as well as views of various European sites. These images can be easily browsed by selecting the Architecture category and entering “Newton 5/2010″ in the Archive Source field.
above, clockwise from upper left:
Crathes Castle. 1596. Banchory, Scotland
Castillo de Manzaneres el Real. late 15th C. Manzaneres el Real, Spain
Gargoyle, Paris Cathedral of Notre Dame. c.1163-1250. Paris, France
Speke Hall. 1530. Speke, England
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The VRC has recently completed a project of scanning a wide selection of fashion images from the 1888 edition of Le Costume Historique from the Jen Library special collections. These images can be easily browsed in the SCAD DID by selecting the Fashion category and entering “Le Costume Historique″ in the Book Source field.
Costumes of Constantinople. 19th C.
India – Dancing Women and Musicians. c.19th C.
Venetian Costumes. c.1550-1600
European Womenswear. c.16th-17th C.
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The VRC will be conducting a workshop for SCAD faculty, staff, and students on Friday, April 30, 10:00 a.m. – 11.30 a.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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Just a reminder about the upcoming VRC workshops – there’s still time to sign up for a spot!
The VRC will be conducting two workshops for SCAD faculty, staff, and students on Thursday, January 28, 10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m., and Friday, January 29, 10 a.m. – 1130 a.m., Jen Library, room 108. The purpose of these workshops 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 purchased from Scholars Resource including images of objects from the collections of the Vatican Museums, the British Museum, and London’s National Gallery. These images can be easily browsed in the SCAD DID by selecting a Category and entering “Scholars Resource 9913″ in the Archive Source field.
above, clockwise from upper left:
La Crau from Montmajour. Vincent van Gogh. 1888. British Museum, London
St. Christopher Carrying the Christ Child. Konrad Witz. c.1435. Kunstmuseum, Basel
Royal Crescent, Bath. John Wood the Younger. 1769-1775
Young Woman Sleeping (Hendrijke Stoffels). Rembrandt van Rijn. c.1654. British Museum, London
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The VRC will be conducting two workshops for SCAD faculty, staff, and students on Thursday, January 28, 10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m., and Friday, January 29, 10 a.m. – 1130 a.m., Jen Library, room 108. The purpose of these workshops 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 purchased from Scholars Resource, including images of objects from the collections of the Museo del Prado, the Musee d’Orsay, the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, and London’s National Gallery. These images can be easily browsed in the SCAD DID by selecting a Category and entering “Scholars Resource 9841″ in the Archive Source field.
above, clockwise from upper left:
Girls at Seaside. Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. 1879. Musee d’Orsay, Paris, France
Cappricio of Palace Architecture. Hans Vredeman de Vries. 1596. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria
Holy Family of the Oak Tree. Raphael. c.1518. Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain
Papal Palace at Avignon. Paul Signac. 1900. Musee d’Orsay, Paris, France
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This week the VRC has added digital images from the following book titles to the SCAD DID:
Curl, James Stevens. Victorian Architecture: Diversity & Invention
Heller, Steven (ed). Innovators of American Illustration
Designpreis der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 2009 (Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany 2009)
Peacock, John. The Chronicle of Western Fashion: From Ancient Times to the Present Day
The History Book: On Moderna Museet 1958-2008
Hufnagl, Florian (ed). The Fat Booty of Madness
Martin, Richard. Orientalism: Visions of the East in Western Dress
Bonansinga, Kate. Stage Stories: Renwick Craft Invitational 2009
Borras, Montse. Office Furniture Design
Images from these sources can be easily located in the SCAD DID by entering a book title in the Book Source field.
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Snapshots of recent additions to the SCAD DID purchased from Scholars Resource, including images of objects from the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Musee Guimet, and the Toledo Museum of Art. These images can be easily browsed in the SCAD DID by selecting a Category and entering “Scholars Resource 9694″ in the Archive Source field.
above, clockwise from upper left (all collection Metropolitan Museum of Art):
Canopic Jar of Manuwai. c.1479-1425 BC. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty. limestone and blue paste.
Processional Cross. c.1150-1175. Spain. gilt silver, gems, and jewels.
Abraham. Lorenzo Monaco. c.1408-1410. tempera and gold on panel.
Vase. Tiffany & Company. 1877. silver.
above, clockwise from upper left (all collection Toledo Museum of Art):
Bust of Domitian. c.90 AD. marble.
Madonna and Child. Andrea della Robbia. c.1465-1470. glazed earthenware.
Ophelia. Arthur Hughes. 1865. oil on canvas.
Abstraction (Military Symbols). Marsden Hartley. 1914-1915. oil on canvas.
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