Denver Art Museum Joins Google Art Project

The Denver Art Museum has teamed up with Google Art Project and 150 other museums around the globe to share some of their favorite works. The collection features 162 artworks by 125 artists.

Denver Art Museum at Google Art Project

The DAM blog announcement states: 

View part of the DAM’s collection on Google Art Project and the DAM website's Collections pages to discover outstanding examples of what make our collection great. Included on both are objects from our noteworthy American Indian and western American art collections, along with works by masters including Claude Monet.

A Historic Photo Archive Re-Emerges at the New York Public Library

In the 1930s and 40s, Roy Stryker, founder of the Farm Security Administration’s photography project, sent boxes of photographic prints to the director of the New York Public Library Picture collection.  In the mid 1940s, the Library of Congress Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Photograph Collection was assembled, comprising 175,000 negatives and 1,600 color transparencies. It quickly became the authoritative source for Mr. Stryker’s projects.  However nearly 41,000 Roy Stryker prints have remained untouched for decades and now, more than 1,000 of those images are available today on a special NYPL site.  Read more about it here!

Library of Congress Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Photographic Collection

The photographs of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Photograph Collection form an extensive pictorial record of American life between 1935 and 1944. This U.S. government photography project was headed for most of its existence by Roy E. Stryker, formerly an economics instructor at Columbia University, and employed such photographers as Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Arthur Rothstein, Ben Shahn, Jack Delano, Marion Post Wolcott, Gordon Parks, John Vachon, and Carl Mydans.

Visual Resources Association: Statement on Fair Use of Images for Teaching, Research, and Study

On May 4, the ARL (Association of Research Libraries) Board of Directors enthusiastically endorsed the Visual Resources Association’s (VRA) Statement on the Fair Use of Images for Teaching, Research, and Study. The VRA Statement is a clear and concise statement of best practices around a medium that can seem especially intimidating for educational users. The statement is a reliable guide, written by professionals who work with images every day and vetted by well-known experts in the field of copyright. ARL believes that the VRA recommendations will help libraries better serve their educational mission by helping to inform library practices and policies with the values of educators, scholars, and students. The ARL Board also notes that the practices described in the VRA statement are fully consistent with the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries, released by ARL earlier this year. Download and read the VRA Statement.

accessCeramics

accessCeramics is a growing collection of images of contemporary ceramics by recognized artists. It is designed for use by artists, arts educators, scholars and the general public, and is intended to fill a void in contemporary ceramics digital image collections on the web.

Collections are available on the accessCeramics website.  All images are downloadable and suitable for classroom use.

José Guadalupe Posada and Jerry Vigil

The Emmanuel Gallery on Auraria Campus welcomes its first summer show featuring works by José Guadalupe Posada and Jerry Vigil.  Posada's Broadsheets: Of Love and Betrayal and Jerry Vigil Posada Inspired opens June 7, 2012 with a free public reception from 6:00-9:00pm.  The exhibit will continue through July 16.

Don't miss this exciting show!