Think of Visual Resources (VR) as your own personal digital imaging service. VR staff are digitally talented artists who will be glad to create digital images for SMFA Students, Faculty and Staff. Visual Resources can create:
Digital Images for Class Presentations
Visual Resources would be glad to create digital images for Students and Faculty for their class presentations and for research. You can order your digital images by completing the Photography Request Form found under Handouts on this page.
Digital Images of Your Own Artwork
Take advantage of this digital imaging service! Visual Resources can photograph artwork of Students and Faculty at a very reasonable cost!
You can order your digital images by completing one of the Photography of Student or Faculty Artwork Request Forms found under Handouts on this page.
ARTstor
ARTstor is a nonprofit digital image library of over 1.2 million images in the arts, architecture, humanities and social sciences. ARTstor is accessible to SMFA Students, Faculty and Staff who have registered with ARTstor on one of the computers in SMFA's W. Van Alan Clark, Jr. Library or on one of the Mac computers in the school's Mac Lab. Registering also gives Students, Faculty and Staff 120 days of Remote Access.
Delicious
Delicious is an innovative image resource accessed free offline. Visual Resources' Delicious account is called Digital Gold at SMFA's Bookmarks.
Delicious is a powerful image resource. SMFA Students, Faculty and Staff can set up their own Delicious accounts. They can save Bookmarks of their favorite image collections and may share their Bookmarks with any subscriber to Delicious. Being able to share a seemingly infinite number of digital images is an exciting function of Delicious.
Other Online and Subscription Image Collections
MFA, Boston Online Collection
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ( www.mfa.org) has an Image Collection of over 160,000 images that represent artistic expression that spans the history of art.
CAMIO - Subscription Image Collection
OCLC's Catalog of Art Museum Images Online is a growing collection documenting works of art from around the world, representing the collections of prominent museums. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, subscribes to CAMIO and is one of the 25 museums that contribute images to this fine resource.
Visual Resources' Digital Image Collection
The Digital Image Collection of Visual Resources is a collection of over 3,000 images that support the curriculum of SMFA. Visual Resources would like to announce that the Collection will be finding a new home in Fall 2011.
The images and their metadata will be transferred to MDID, the Madison Digital Image Database where the SMFA community will be able to Browse for images! |
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Request Forms
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Request Forms
(.docx, 11K)
Visual Resources has created a number of Request Forms for Students, Faculty, Staff and Alumni to use to request digital images. Just complete the Form and e-mail it to Visual Resources (npalmer@smfa.edu). |
Visual Resources Digital Photography Request Form
(.docx, 12K)
Visual Resources will be glad to create digital images for SMFA Students, Faculty, Staff and Alumni for educational use. The Jpegs are approximately 1024 x 768 pixels in size, just right for a Powerpoint or Keynote presentation. Just complete the Request Form and e-mail it to Visual Resources (npalmer@smfa.edu). |
Photography of Faculty Artwork Request Form
(.docx, 12K)
Visual Resources will be glad to photograph Faculty artwork! Just complete this Request Form and e-mail it to Visual Resources (npalmer@smfa.edu). |
Photography of Student Artwork Request Form
(.docx, 12K)
Visual Resources will be glad to photograph the artwork of Students. This is important, documenting his or her development as artists. |
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ARTstor
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ARTstor User Guide
(.docx, 4759K)
This Guide created by Visual Resources describes the many creative functions of ARTstor. ARTstor is a subscription image database which is accessible to SMFA Students, Faculty and Staff and MFA Staff who have registered with ARTstor. The Digital Image Library of ARTstor includes over 1.2 million images in the arts, architecture, humanities and social sciences,
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Delicious
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Delicious User Guide
(.docx, 1717K)
Delicious is an innovative free image resource accessed offline. |
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Visual Resources' Digital Image Collection User Guide
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Digital Image Collection (VR's) User Guide
(.pdf, 276K)
The User Guide for Visual Resources' Digital Image Collection describes a Collection which meets the needs of SMFA Students, Faculty and Staff and supports the curriculum of the school. |
Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to view and print PDF files.
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