The Studio Art & Visual Resources page at Beantown College
Contact Librarian: Rachel Sietz
rsietz@beantowncollege.edu
(617) 585-9236 ext. 16
Our goal is to share some of the resources available to you through the Fenway Library and Visual Resources Center. This area is limited to online resources in studio arts and visual image sharing, so be sure to visit our General Art & Architecture Resources page for other print and digital information such as bibliographies and art history resources including reference sources, journals, databases, and other online resources.
By no means does this page attempt to be a comprehensive list of studio art or image resources, but rather a place to get started learning about what types of resources exist and are available to both students and faculty. We are here to serve. Literally! It is our job to be useful. So please feel free to contact us with further questions, comments, or any problems. We are happy to work both with you and your students.
Reference Resources
Oxford Art Online: provides access to a wide range of authoritative online art resources, including reference works, articles, and bibliographies.
Credo Reference: a collection of over 500 reference books across a variety of subjects from top publishers. Credo also includes the Bridgeman Art Library Archive, a good source of images.
Art Babble: a video hosting service for art content. Partnering institutions include museums from all over the world.
ARTbibliographies Modern: a source of information on modern and contemporary art dating from the late 19th century onwards, including photography
ARTbibliographies Modern: a source of information on modern and contemporary art dating from the late 19th century onwards, including photography
Image Resources Collections
ARTstor: over 1.5 million images in the arts, architecture, humanities and sciences with cataloging image management abilities. Please come see us for all your ARTstor needs! We would love to help you integrate images with the Moodle courseware system. We also offer targeted training sessions for both faculty and students.
Art Images for College Teaching: a royalty-free image exchange resource for the educational community.
LIFE Archive of Images: access to LIFE Magazine's collection of images.
Flickr Commons: thousands of images from dozens of leading international academic and cultural institutions available freely in the public domain. Includes the NYPL, Getty, Library of Congress, Brooklyn Museum, and the Smithsonian.
Websites + Blogs
graphicCOMMcentral: the graphic communications industry’s education and career support portal for secondary and post-secondary students and educators. Funded by the Graphic Arts Education and Research Foundation (GAERF)
The Little Chimp Society: a website community that connects illustrators and artists with events, a blog, interviews, news, calls, as well as links to the Facebook and Twitter groups.
Flux-Boston: a blog with a mission to "provide timely information on art events happening in the greater Boston area at established and lesser known venues and give exposure to local and emerging artists." The blog is posts multimedia, is updated multiple times a week, provides links to other resources, has Twitter and Facebook accounts as well.
Top 100 Blogs: An annotated list of the top contemporary art blogs, including Contemporary Art Daily, the NYT, ranging from content focused geographically, institutionally, by medium, or varying author positions and perspectives.
City of Boston Visual Arts Resources: Website for Boston arts information including links to local artists' groups, Open Studio tours information, and a call for artists page. (Also see Cambridge's Open Studios website)
ArtVenue: resource to help get artwork shown and sold in local businesses.
Boston Art Underground: list of local galleries and artists with an interactive map to search for galleries by location near MBTA stops.
Publications
Communication Arts: the largest international trade journal of visual communications. Covers graphic design, advertising, photography, illustration, and interactive media.
Juxtapoz: Featuring sub-genres of underground art. In 2009 was the most widely circulated art magazine in the US.
Hi-Fructose: A quarterly print contemporary art magazine that focuses on "art which transcends genre and trend".
Guggenheim ebooks: Freely available catalogs and out-of-print books published by the Guggenheim Museum.
Journal of Artists' Books: publishes critical and theoretical articles, reviews of artists' books and exhibitions, and commentary on conferences and and other book art-related activities.
Art Bulletin: Bulletin of the College Art Association - leading scholarship in the English language in all aspects of art history as practiced in the academy, museums, and other institutions.
ARTnews: covers art from ancient to post-Modernism. It includes news dispatches from correspondents, investigative reports, reviews of exhibitions, and profiles of artists and collectors.
Art New England: focuses on the artist communities throughout the region
ArtForum: an international monthly magazine specializing in contemporary art
International Journal of Design: a peer-reviewed, open-access journal devoted to publishing research papers in all fields of design, including industrial design, visual communication design, interface design, animation and game design, architectural design, urban design, and other design related fields.
Depth of Field: peer-reviewed journal, published in English. It offers an interdisciplinary platform for researchers from scientific disciplines such as art history, history, media technology and visual anthropology.
The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship: born-digital, open access, open peer review academic journal dedicated to comics scholarship.
Copyright + Fair Use
We are your resource for any and all questions regarding fair use and copyright for image sharing. Please come for an information session or schedule a learning session for your students.
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