Useful Internet Links
GENERAL ART SOURCES
A source for art market information, art fairs, galleries,
etc.
Includes Art Net magazine.
Art Historian's Guide to the Movies
"The Art Historians' Guide to the Movies is a record of appearances of
and references to famous works of art and architecture in the movies. It is intended
to be a source for teachers of art history who are considering showing clips or entire
films as part of their presentation of the traditional arts of painting, sculpture,
and architecture. Citations are arranged in (very) approximate chronological order
of the artworks, not the movies (the order I deemed most useful for teachers looking
for sources on particular art-historical subjects)."
This is a comprehensive site with original commentary as
well as extensive links. The Resources section contains a long list of
links to electronic publications. The Reading section has a regular
column, reviews and articles from international media and selected
electronic journals. There are also links to art organizations and much
more.
This site provides information on American artists from
the 16th to the 21st centuries. The site includes biographies, auction
records, bibliographies, a dealer and museum directory and more.
The Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance
The Census is "an interdisciplinary research database containing documentation centering on the reception of antiquity, a focus of Renaissance studies."
Divided into two parts, the Census includes the monuments as well as written sources such as inventories of collections, travel writings and other archival documents.
This site includes information on color theories from
antiquity to modern times as well as the significance of color in various cultures.
AFRICAN-AMERICAN SOURCES
This site focuses on "expressive cultures of Africa and the
African Diaspora." It includes information on exhibitions, book and film
reviews and has links to related sites.
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
A national research library "devoted to collecting,
preserving and providing access to resources documenting the experiences
of peoples of African descent throughout the world." The
Center has an art and artifacts division whose holdings are accessible
through the NYPL catalog.
ANCIENT ART
This site, sponsored by the Oriental Institute of the
University Chicago, provides links to resources on the ancient Near
East. The primary indexes are to author and project or institutional
affiliation. Secondary indexes include directories, online journals,
museum collections online, library catalogs online, regional indexes to
Egypt and Mesopotamia, etc.
This site discusses the styles, periods and production of
Greek and Roman gems, pottery and sculpture. The site includes thousands
of images, a dictionary, bibliographies and links to other classical
sites.
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum (CVA) is the result of an international effort to
produce illustrated catalogs of classical vases. The website contains the text and images
from the volumes that are out of print. For current volumes, check the library catalog.
Encyclopedia of the Hellenic World
The encyclopedia is "an original electronic project dealing with the collection, recording, documentation, presentation and promotion of the historic data regarding the presence of Hellenism all over the world, throughout the centuries. The first part delas with the Hellenic presence in Asia Minor."
This site offers 441 works of classical literature by 59
different authors. You can search by title of work, author, or words
within the works.
This web site provides interactive panoramas of ancient sites.
It is part of The Stoa which includes many projects
on ancient art.
Perseus is a digital library on Ancient Greece and
includes Greek and English texts, dictionaries, examples of classroom use
of Perseus, links to related sites, and examples of Greek art and
architecture. The Art Library has the CD-ROM version of Perseus
which provides additional information on the same subjects.
Perseus includes an electronic version of the Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites with articles on more than 5,000 Greco-Roman sites and links to over 4,400 photographs of Roman sites. PECS may be accessed by typing the name of the site into the "Search Perseus" box, or by its table of contents.
Perseus includes an electronic version of the Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites with articles on more than 5,000 Greco-Roman sites and links to over 4,400 photographs of Roman sites. PECS may be accessed by typing the name of the site into the "Search Perseus" box, or by its table of contents.
This site is "a collaborative venture that focuses on the
urban center of Pompeii. There are three components: documentation of
standing remains; archaeological analysis, and urban study."
This site aims to map the archaeological, geological and
ethnographic features of ancient Thebes and the Theban Necropolis. The
site includes information on the Valley of the Kings, the tomb of the sons
of Ramses II, and an overview of Egyptology that has a timeline and a
bibliography slated to grow to 30,000 references.
Described as "a virtual community for teaching and learning
Classics," this is a site where "students and instructors can interact
live, hold courses and lectures and share resources." The site includes
resources such as texts, commentaries, images, maps, etc.
This site bills itself as "the definitive guide to Viking resources on the
Internet."
ARCHAEOLOGY
The Archaeological Institute of America
Include links to archaeological sites on the Web, placement
services, publications, current projects, fellowship information and a
list of events and meetings.
PortAnta, Archaeology in Portugal
PortAnta is the web site for the archaeology program that U of L offers
in Portugal.
ARCHITECTURE
A comprehensive and well-organized guide to net resources on
architecture, building, construction, design, real estate, housing,
etc.
Brief Biographies of American Architects
Contains biographical entries for American architects who
died between 1897 and 1947 as transcribed from the American Art
Annual by Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr., Director of the Maine Historic
Preservation Commission.
"The Cities/Buildings Database is a collection of digitized
images of buildings and cities drawn from across time and throughout the
world, available to students, researchers and educators on the web."
This site documents a thousand buildings and hundreds of
leading architects, with 3D models, photographic images and architectural
drawings, commentaries, bibliographies, web links, and more, for famous
designers and structures of all kinds."
Home page for the Historic American Buildings Survey
and the
Historic American Engineering Record. The site has a searchable
database of more than 32,800 historic structures and sites.
The International Archive of Women in Architecture
The Archive documents "the history of women's involvement
in architecture by collecting,
preserving, storing, and making available to researchers the professional
papers of women architects, landscape architects, designers,
architectural historians and critics, and urban planners, and the records
of women's architectural organizations, from around the world."
ART BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Archives holds more than thirteen million items,
consisting of the papers of artists, dealers, critics, art historians,
curators, administrators and the records of art dealers, museums, and
other art-related businesses, institutions, and organizations. The site
contains information on doing research in the Archives and on how to use
the collections.
This database allows for simultaneous searching of art-related bibliographic records from multiple library catalogs in Germany, Portugal, England, France, Switzerland, Italy and the U.S. The database contains more than 6 million records of books, articles, conference papers, festschriften, exhibition catalogues, etc.
The early issues of Artforum are not indexed in the
major journal indexes. This site indexes Artforum from volume 1 through
volume 7, 1962 - 1968. The index was done by Laurence McGilvery,
bookseller.
Aims to provide a register of papers and primary sources
relating to painters, sculptors, designers and craftspeople located in
publicly accessible collections in the United Kingdom. The Register
includes artists of any nationality whose papers are in a publicly
accessible collection in the UK.
Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities
The site of a major player in the effort to establish
global networks to link databases of information on cultural
information. From here you can get to a number of databases, including:
MetaBibCatsWiki
- The Research Library whose online catalog contains records of archival and special materials, monographs, serials, media and auction catalogs.
- The Union List of Artist Names (ULAN) is a "database of biographical and bibliographical information on artists and architects, including a wealth of variant names, pseudonyms, and language variants."
- The Getty Provenance Index provides information on the history of collecting and the provenance of individual works of art. Six online databases provide access to more than 9,000 17th and 18th century European family inventories, 5,000 18th and 19th century auction catalogues, and basic cataloguing information for more than 32,000 paintings from American and British public collections.
- The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN) "contains approximately 900,000 records for places, arranged in hierarchies representing all nations of the modern world, and including vernacular and historical names, coordinates, place types, and other relevant information.
Use MetaBibCatsWiki to locate holdings of works published in other
countries but not found in WorldCat. Most of the countries of the Americas, Europe,
Australia and New Zealand are included.
ART EDUCATION
Sponsored by the Getty, for art education K - 12, this site
offers lesson plans, online exchange of ideas, texts, etc.
This site includes lesson plans and links to web sites for
architecture, computers in art, dance, music, photography and theater
arts.
National Art Education Association
The NAEA site includes news releases, recent papers,
publications, membership information and information on the National Art
Education Foundation.
ART HISTORY
The Ambrosiana Archive at the University of Notre Dame
A duplicate of the Inventory-Catalogue of the Drawings in
the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan, this archive of 12,000 Italian
drawings from the 15th - 17th centuries includes almost 5000 digitized
images. The database can be searched by artist, title, medium, key word,
etc. Each record includes a description, provenance, bibliography,
etc.
The Association for Art History
This site "brings together professionals and students who
share a central concern with art and its history. It reaffirms the
significance of art history as a rigorous humanist discipline that
embraces scholarly and critical standards of the highest order."
The Dictionary of Art Historians
"This database is designed to give researchers a beginning point to finding information on the background
of major art historians of western art history." A keyword search feature
allows searching by art methodology, school of thought, etc.
Part of a larger collection of resources on the 18th
century, the Art page has links to art, architecture, landscape gardening,
historic building and costume sites on the Web.
The Image of France: An Index to French Printed Imagery 1811-1817
provides key word access to approximately 19,000 records of
prints published in Paris between 1811 and 1817 as recorded in La
Bibliographie de la France, the journal that documented publishing
activity in France. Including both obscure and well-known prints, the
database provides precise dating of prints.
Laybrinth: a WWW Server for Medieval Studies
A large site covering medieval literature, history and
culture. There are links to sites on archaeology, arts and architecture,
Vikings, medieval texts and images, teaching resources, professional news,
publications and organizations, and much more.
NetSerf lists internet resources according to topic with sections for
archaeology, architecture and art. Includes a glossary of medieval terms.
The Online Medieval & Classical Library
The Online Medieval and Classical Library (OMACL) "is a collection of some of the
most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization." At this site you
can find translations of major works as well as links to other sites for medieval and
classical studies.
ORB, the Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
"The Online Resource Book for Medieval Studies (ORB) is
a cooperative effort on the part of scholars across the internet to establish an
online textbook source for medieval studies on the World-Wide Web." While
the site concentrates mostly on the literature of the period, there are sections
on the arts, symbolism and iconography and other topics relevant to medieval art.
Pierpont Morgan Library Catalog and Manuscript Descriptions
The online catalog of the Morgan library, Corsair, now provides links
to descriptions of medieval and renaissance manuscripts. The descriptions
were "compiled by several generations of curators and often contain information
not available elsewhere, such as complete lists of texts and illustrations within
a manuscript and bibliographies."
SIRIS, the Smithsonian Institution Research Information System
This site provides access to a number of catalogs and
databases. From this page you can choose from the catalogs listed
below.
- The Libraries Catalog includes holdings of the
Smithsonian Institution Libraries' 18 branch libraries and the holdings of
the National Museum of American Art and National Portrait Gallery Library.
- The Archival, Manuscripts and Photographic Collections
contain descriptions of archival material, including manuscripts, photographs,
sound recordings, films, etc., from nine archival repositories at the
Smithsonian. The Archives of American Art, the Archives of American
Gardens, and the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives are among those that
contributed records.
- The Art Inventories Catalog
provides access to the database of the Inventory of
American Painting and Sculpture, maintained by the National Museum of
American Art. The database contains more than 360,000 records describing
American paintings and sculpture; it can be searched by artist, title of
work, subject or keyword.
- The Peter A. Juley & Son Collection
is a large photographic archive that
documents the work of approximately 10,000 American artists in
127,000 images.
- Pre-1877 Art Exhibition Catalogue Index
describes over
136,000 art works shown in more than 1000 exhibitions in North America through 1876.
ART MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES
"Euromuse.net is a public access portal giving accurate information on major exhibitions in European museums."
Global Museum, the Internationl Museum Webzine
Global Museum provides information for the museum professional
including jobs, news, travel, books and more.
This site includes exhibition listings, examples from the
permanent collection, a calendar, and an education section.
Museum Management Web Resources
Tom Caswell has compiled a list of web sources to help students in curatorial studies, researchers and practitioners. It includes organizations, selected images collections, databases, E-journals, discussion lists, blogs, directories, employment opportunities, etc.
From the Smithsonian Institution, this site includes information on job opportunities, museum studies training, organizations, extensive bibliographies and more.
ART SCHOOLS
Includes sections on colleges and universities, graduate
study, studying abroad, distance learning, etc. The site covers all
fields, including art. Colleges and universities are indexed
alphabetically, geographically and by major.
Art Source Art and Architecture Programs
Provides links to a number of schools offering art and
architecture programs.
Fine Art Forum Academic Resources
Provides links to studio art and art history
programs. Schools are listed geographically.
AUCTIONS AND COLLECTING
This site offers 11years of auction information. Paid
subscribers can find prices for more than 1 million works from over
140,000 artists. "Visitors" to the site have access only to the name and
medium of the work and the date it was sold.
Artfact offers the most comprehensive online database of more than
6 million antiques and art auction sales results from more than
500 auction houses worldwide. Artfact's database includes estimated and realized prices,
available photos, all of the original auction house information and over two million digital
images.
Auction Sales Indexes: Books, CD-ROM's and On-Line Services
An article that provides an excellent overview of auction
records, written by Lee Robinson of the New York Public Library. It
includes sections on current and retrospective auction sales indexes,
price guides, electronic resources and summary charts.
BLOGS
Recommended Blogs for Art Reviews A list compiled by art librarians in March 2008. Also available at del.icio.us
Artblog by Roberta Fallon and Libby Rosof
artopia,John Perreaultıs art diary
Blog by Barry Hoggard on art and politics
C_MONSTER.net, Where High Gets Low
CultureGrrl, Lee Rosenbaumıs cultural commentary
Edward Winkleman, Art, politics, gossip, tough love
The Expanded Field, Visual Art, Literature, and Critique in Los Angeles by Andrew Berardini
Eyebeam reBlog - distilling art and technology
Greg.org, the making of: movies, art, &c, by greg allen
Happy Famous Artists--bad art for bad people
Modern Art Notes Tyler Greenıs modern & contemporary art blog
Modern Art Obsession, Where the Pursuit of the Collection IS the Obsession
NewArtTV, Your channel to the art world
The OC Art Blog, Contemporary Art in Orange County
SELLOUT, practical aspects of being a visual artist
Wooster Collective, A celebration of street
BOOK ARTS
A peer-reviewed e-journal for book artists and bookbinders. Article
topics include hand bookbinding, teaching, business practice, the history of the book,
general tips & tricks, exhibitions, how-to technical articles, and reviews.
The University of Alabama has interviews with book artists available for download on its website. Click on "Recorded interviews with book people."
A gateway to various sites on the web concerning
letterpress printing, typography, paper arts, rare book dealers, book
artists, printers, bookbinders, related organizations, etc. There is also
a gallery with images of hand bound books and links to online exhibitions
and collections.
BOOK DEALERS, PUBLISHERS AND VIDEO DEALERS
Lists more than 35,000 titles on art, architecture and
photography in a searchable database. The emphasis is on international
museum and gallery catalogues published from the 1960s
to the present and American trade and university press art books published
since 1992, including forthcoming titles. More than 18,000 of the titles
are currently available.
This is a service for buying and selling out-of-print,
used, rare and antiquarian books in all fields, including art. Almost
2000 book dealers list their stock through this web site.
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
"Has more than 7,000 video, CD-ROM, and videodisc programs
covering a broad range of subjects."
A collection of over 600 films on art from prehistoric
times to the present day.
"A resource for videotapes by and about contemporary
artists."
CAREER INFORMATION
"Academic Careers Online includes faculty, teacher, research, post doc, adjunct, library, administrative and senior management positions at (community) colleges, universities, research institutes, and schools around the world."
This is the text of a talk given by Mary Corbin Sies. She
gives excellent advice on interviewing and provides an
academic job application checklist as well as a long list of questions that might
come up in an interview.
ArtJob provides a searchable database of professional
opportunities in all areas of the arts.
Part of the World Wide Arts Resources site, this section
includes links to job offerings in graphic design, interior design, museum
work and freelance work.
CERAMICS
This site indexes the work of US and Canadian ceramists illustrated in books
and catalogs.
Sponsored by the San Diego State University, this site
includes a database of glazes and materials, information on health and
safety, and links to other sites.
CONSERVATION
The American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works
This site provides information on caring for your
treasures, disaster recovery, health and safety, conferences,
publications, grant information, becoming a conservator and selecting a
conservator.
This site, maintained by Professor James Beck, monitors the
treatments of works of art worldwide.
Sponsored by the Preservation Department of Stanford
University Libraries, this site provides a full text library of
conservation information for library, archives and museum
professionals.
This site includes a newsletter archives, publications
list, links to the GCI library catalog and abstracts of GCI research and
links to external resources.
International Council on Monuments and Sites
ICOMOS is an international non-governmental organization
of professionals, dedicated to the conservation of the world's historic
monuments and sites.
Northeast Document Conservation Center
This site provides an excellent gateway to information on
the conservation of works of art on paper, photographs and library
collections.
CRAFTS
This site offers information and resources including a
schedule of crafts shows, exhibits, conferences, etc. and craft-related
links to other Web resources.
This site provides access to information about
North American quilted bed coverings. The records of the Kentucky
Quilt Project are included.
DECORATIVE ARTS
The Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture
Focuses on Early America and includes electronic texts and
journals, image databases, and information on organizations, museums and
research facilities.
DICTIONARIES
A "guide to great art at online museum sites and
image archives worldwide." It includes 7000 artists and the entries can
be browsed by movement, medium, subject or nationality. There are also
links to art museums.
A dictionary of visual art terminology for "artists, art
students and art educators in art production, art criticism, art history,
aesthetics, and art education."
DRAWING
Drawing professor Ralph Larmann developed this site to
help artists and art students improve their understanding of the elements
that make up the human figure and to better portray them. It is intended
as a resource for artists and art students who work with the human
form.
Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body
This site features 1,247 engravings, many in color, from
the classic 1918 publication, as well as a subject index with 13,000
entries.
Materials and Techniques of Drawing
Provides historical information on the materials
(e.g. charcoal, gouache, graphite, etc.) and techniques (e.g. working
sketch, underdrawing, incision, etc.) of drawing. Also included are a
glossary, a bibliography and links to other Web resources.
GRANTS, AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, ETC.
From the College Art Association, includes a section called
Resources & Opportunities which lists awards, calls for entries, internships,
grants and fellowships, calls for manuscripts, residencies, etc.
Developed by the New York Foundation for the Arts, "NYFA Source is
the most extensive national database of awards, services, and publications for
artists of all disciplines. Artists, arts organizations, and the general public
can access information on over 2,600 arts organizations, 2,700 award programs,
2,100 service programs, and 700 publications for individual artists nationwide,
with more programs added every day."
Resources in Art History for Graduate Students
"Lists grants, fellowships, internships and study abroad
opportunities for graduate students in art history and closely related
areas such as humanities and visual art studies. It also carries listings
of art history conferences and publication opportunities of particular
interest to graduate students. Some listings are also open to
undergraduates or to postdocs."
American Academy in Rome: The Rome Prize
The Rome Prize, established in 1894, is a fellowship for
American artists and scholars.
The Getty provides grants for research, for conservation and for the education
and professional development of museum professionals.
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awards
fellowships to individuals to assist research and artistic creation .
National Gallery of Art - Center for the Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
The CASVA offers several types of fellowships.
GRAPHIC DESIGN & TYPOGRAPHY
Presents information on typefaces, their creators, and their
history. There are four
sections of typefaces: classical, 20th century, contemporary and
unclassified.
Sponsored by Duke University Libraries, this center is
concerned with the study of sales, advertising and marketing. It has a
"vast collection of textual and multimedia resources" including Ad Access an image
database of 7,000 ads from newspapers and magazines from 1911 to
1955.
The Hillman Curtis Artist Series
Hillman Curtis produced short videos about various graphic designers in his Artists Series. Designers include Pentagram, Milton Glaser, Mark Romanek, Paula Scher, Stefan Sagmeister, David Carson and James Vivtore
This site has resources for people with vision difficulties
including two publications of interest to designers: Effective Color
Contrast: Designing for People with Partial Sight and Color Deficiencies
and Making
Text Legible: Designing for People with Partial Sight.
Includes sections on the evolution of type, a timeline of
the recent history of type, the structure of letterforms, a gallery with
typographic imagery, a glossary and a bibliography.
IMAGE COLLECTIONS AND IMAGE DATABASES
This site accesses visual arts digital resources, mostly British. Included are images from the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, the
Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi, several fashion, textile and design collections, a collection of 20th century Latin American art, etc.
"The world's largest photo archive of fine art, from
prehistory to the present with over three million transparencies and black
& white photos of painting, sculpture, architecture and the minor
arts." Art Resource functions as the official rights and permissions
representative for many museums in the U.S. and abroad.
This site has close to 450,000 images from hundreds of humanities and natural
science museums across Canada.
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur
This database provides hundreds of thousands of images of German
art and architecture. There are four indexes for browsing (Location, Artist, Iconography,
and Views and Portraits) in addition to a search box at the bottom of the main page.
Chartres: Cathedral of Notre Dame
TThis website provides access to more than 3,000 high resolution images and
detailed descriptions of Chartres Cathedral.
Christus Rex et Redemptor Mundi
"A private, non-profit organization dedicated to the
dissemination of information on works of art preserved in churches,
cathedrals and monasteries all over the world..." The site includes
many images including Vatican collections, Sistine Chapel, etc.
This site allows you to search across many art collections in France.
KOAR, Kentucky Online Arts Resource
KOAR is a free image database devoted to documenting
the state's decorative arts, fine arts, folk arts, and design.
Image Collections and Online Art
This site from the University of Michigan provides links to
images in the following areas: Africa & the Diaspora; The Americas;
Asia; Europe; Islam; Classical World of the Mediterranean; Photography;
Collections, Galleries and Sources.
Images From Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
From the Pierpont Morgan Library, spanning ten centuries of Western illumination,
this collection contains manuscripts from all the major schools.
"The NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 550,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more."
"The SIRIS Image Gallery contains a sampling of archival visual records
that are part of the Smithsonian Institution Research Information System's main catalog.
It includes over 90,000 electronic images from several archival repositories at the
Smithsonian. You may browse these images by archival repositories or by their physical forms."
This collection, comprising 91 images, documents the Benedictine abbey church of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine
at Vézelay, one of the most important surviving monuments of architecture and sculpture of the
Romanesque period
The V & A's Collections Online website provides high resolution files of objects from the museum including ceramics, fashion, furniture, glass, metalwork, paintings, photographs, prints, sculpture, and textiles from around the world. Scholars are not charged permissions fees to use these images in publications.
Home page of the association of professionals interested in
visual resources. It provides HTML tutorials, information on copyright
issues and links to related sites.
HOW TO FIND IMAGES ON THE WEB
This is an extensive site listing links to images arranged
by topic. It was compiled by Paula Berinstein.
This site, by Boston University librarian Ruth S. Thomas,
covers search engines and image archives, downloading and inserting images into documents,
copyright issues and more.
INTERIOR DESIGN
American Society of Interior Designers
The home page of this organization provides information on
finding the right designer, learning how interior designers work, and
information on ASID.
FM4: Furniture, Meubles, Mobili
Provides a guide to online resources related to furniture
and interior design. Resources are organized into sections such as
furniture history, furniture industry, furniture designers, etc.
From the International Interior Design Association, a database of journal articles, news items, websites and other resources of interest to interior designers, educators and students.
Provides product and manufacturing information to the
construction industry: architects, builders, interior designers,
engineers. The site can be searched by company, key word, firm name or
Sweets division.
LOUISVILLE AND KENTUCKY RESOURCES
The Filson Historical Society From the Filson Club's home page you can find information
on membership, programs and activities, special collections, the library,
publications, the museum and the gift shop.
Check out the work of Julius Friedman and Mike Slone, the
design team of Images, a graphic design studio specializing in corporate
and cultural design.
Includes links to Kentucky Save Outdoor Sculpture, the
newsletter Blue Moon, information on grants and guidelines and
more.
Kentucky Crafted: Kentucky Arts Council
Events and craftspeople associated with the Kentucky Craft
Marketing Program.
This site has information on the Foundation's grants
program, current activities, list of recent grant recipients, information
on The American Voice,its literary magazine, and information on
Hopscotch House, its retreat house.
Kentucky Museum of Arts + Design
This site includes information on exhibitions, artists, educational opportunities,
special events and more.
"The Kentucky Quilt Project was formed in 1981 to survey the state's quilts."
KOAR, Kentucky Online Arts Resource
KOAR is a free image database devoted to documenting
the state's decorative arts, fine arts, folk arts, and design.
The Louisville Artists Directory includes the visual and performing arts, listing both artists and art galleries.
"The Kentucky Quilt Project was formed in 1981 to survey the state's quilts."
Louisville
Visual Art
Association
Includes information about the organization, exhibitions,
special events and workshop classes.
Metro Louisville Land Development Code
This link leads you to a PDF file of the Land Development
Code for Metro Louisville in effect as of March 1, 2003.
ONLINE JOURNALS
Directory of Open Access Journals
The Directory "covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals" in all subject areas. Art and architecture journals are included under their own subject heading; archaeology is included under History.
PRINTMAKING
Home page for the non-profit consortium of printmakers'
councils. The web site includes links to exhibits, resources (calendars,
competitions, technical articles, supplies) and a library section with a
glossary of printmaking techniques.
This site has a searchable database of oeuvre catalogues of
prints by European and American artists and a section on studying prints
which includes techniques, authenticity, care of prints, value and online
resources.