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Open Educational Resources (OER) Librarian
Maria Taylor
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Office: Hutchins Library 221
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Hutchins Library
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Berea, KY 40404
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Hutchins Library
Berea College
Berea, KY 40404
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Art
- Foundation Drawing for Art 1100Foundation Drawing for Art 1100 serves as the primary text for the course of the same name at the UNO School of the Arts.
- Making and BeingThis hands-on guide includes activities, worksheets, and assignments and is a critical resource for artists and art educators today.
- Colour Theory: Understanding and Working with ColourColour theory covers a long history from antiquity to modern times. It includes academic and scientific investigations into how we see and understand colour. It also includes practical applications for using colour in creative work.
Art History
- 19th Century European Art HistoryPart textbook, part shared knowledge, this book is the co-creation of the instructor and students of Red Deer Polytechnic's ART 305, 19th Century European Art History class.
- Understanding New Media ArtUnderstanding New Media Art is an OER for introductory college art and art history courses that builds on scholarship in the field to propose a long historical context for the technologies and ideas related to New Media Art in the 21st century.
- Where Does Art Come From?Where Does Art Come From? focuses on global arts and culture for the UTA core curriculum art history introductory course ART 1317 “Arts of Africa, Asia, Islam, Oceania, and the Indigenous Americas.”
- The Bright Continent: African Art HistoryThis book aims to act as your map through the world of African art. As such, it will help you define the competencies you need to develop–visual analysis, research, noting what information is critical, asking questions, and writing down your observations–and provide opportunities for you to practice these skills until you are proficient.
- Guide to Byzantine ArtThe “Beginner’s guide” introduces foundational concepts, such as the chronology of Byzantine history, sacred imagery, and wearable objects.
- American Encounters: Art, History, and Cultural IdentityAmerican Encounters provides a narrative of the history of American art that focuses on historical encounters among diverse cultures, upon broad structural transformations such as the rise of the middle classes and the emergence of consumer and mass culture, and on the fluid conversations between "high" art and vernacular expressions.
- A World Perspective of Art History: 1400CE to the 21st CenturyTo become more culturally inclusive, the textbook is written to redefine art history by discussing art from every continent, civilization, and unknown artists and comparing different cultures that existed at the same time.
- Introduction to Art History IThis text acknowledges and explores the historiography of art history and brings in global connections to provide a broader, more diverse, and more inclusive survey of art history from the Paleolithic through Gothic periods.
- Art History Teaching ResourcesA peer-populated platform for art history teachers, AHTR is home to a constantly evolving and collectively authored online repository of art history teaching content including, but not limited to, lesson plans, book reviews, image clusters, and classroom and museum activities.
- Art in Revolution: Nineteenth-Century Visual CultureThis open access book is the culminating product of an open pedagogy assignment in VISA 2P90: Art in Revolution: Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture taught at Brock University during the Autumn 2021 semester.
Repositories & Collections
- Getty Museum CollectionsPublic domain images from the Getty Museum
- Smithsonian Open AccessWith new platforms and tools, you have easier access to more than 4.9 million 2D and 3D digital items from our collections—with many more to come. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 21 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.
- National Gallery of Art - Free Images and Open AccessOver 50,000 images are available for download, and we will continue to add more images for free access as more works are photographed and as works of art enter the public domain.
- The Metropolitan Museum of ArtPublic domain images from the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- SmarthistoryA website with images, videos, and information about art from Prehistoric sculptures to 20th century Architecture.
Compilations of Smarthistory Content
- Reframing Art HistoryReframing Art History, an open-access multimedia art history "textbook," gives you a guided journey through the living, breathing, meaningful side of art history.
- Guide to Ancient Aegean ArtThis book contains all of Smarthistory’s content for the Ancient Aegean, including Cycladic, Minoan, and Mycenaean art.
- Guide to Ancient Greek ArtA compilation of all Smarthistory resources on Greek art, compiled as a pdf and print version.
- Guide to Ancient Roman ArtA compilation of all Smarthistory resources on Roman art, compiled as a pdf and print version.
- Guide to Ancient Egyptian ArtThis book contains all of Smarthistory’s content for Ancient Egyptian art.
- Guide to Ancient Etruscan ArtThis book contains all of Smarthistory’s content for the Ancient Etruscan art.
- Guide to Italian art in the 1300sThis book contains all of Smarthistory’s content for Italian art in the 1300s.
- Guide to Italian art in the 1400sThis book contains all of Smarthistory’s content for Italian art in the 1400s.
