Art & Design, Art History, Art Education

This link will take you to another MNSU library guide on how to find and use online and print image resources for your projects.

Artchive is an Online Art Gallery and Art Encyclopedia. Artchive was founded in 1998 by Mark Harden, and was one of the earliest art authorities on the web.

From the site: "Cary was director of Continental Type Founders Association (a type-importing agency), a former president of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, and proprietor of the private Press of the Woolly Whale. His professional and personal interests in printing led him to collect printer's manuals and type specimens, as well as great books of the printer's art."

"Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum is the only museum in the nation devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design. The Museum presents compelling perspectives on the impact of design on daily life through active educational and curatorial programming."

The best of contemporary art and a world class sculpture garden.

Visit again and again. Historical and contemporary world art.

From the site: "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. "

"Archnet is a globally-accessible, intellectual resource focused on architecture, urbanism, environmental and landscape design, visual culture, and conservation issues related to the Muslim world. Archnet’s mission is to provide ready access to unique visual and textual material to facilitate teaching, scholarship, and professional work of high quality."

Research collection of primary sources for study of American art and artists.

A listing of Art History websites by topic. Started in 1995, this guide is still well maintained.

A continuously growing archive or primary and secondary materials covering contemporary art movements across Asia.

"The Getty Research Portal™ is an online search platform providing global access to digitized art history texts in the public domain. "

"The Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art fosters the discovery and appreciation of the visual arts of Africa, the cradle of humanity."

A free and open, not-for-profit, art history textbook. It uses multimedia to deliver unscripted conversations between art historians about the history of art.