ARTstor Travel Awards

ARTstor is offering five $1500 travel awards for undergraduate and graduate students, curators, educators, and librarians in any field to help fund travel-related educational and scholarly activities.

This year the theme is cities. Rules include, "create an ARTstor image group or groups and a single essay of 500 words or less about cities." Application, rules, and more information here. The deadline is Tuesday, May 28th.

You could use this money to go to a conference in some other part of the world for professional development, networking or any other educational or scholarly related travel. Whoo hoo! 

Veronique Hahn Exhibit at Centro Cultural Hispano de San Marcos

The public is invited to an artist’s reception for “Pilar” a new exhibit at Centro Cultural Hispano de San Marcos by local artist, Veronique Hahn, whose exhibit celebrates Spanish Culture, Sunday, April 21, 2-4 p.m. 

Along with the artwork, guests will be entertained by Carlos Cedillo playing Spanish guitar and, starting at 3:30, a dramatic reading (in Spanish) by Texas State University student members of Club del Teatro Leído of Federico Garcia Lorca’s classic play, “Yerma.” 

 
 

Centro Cultural Hispano de San Marcos is located at 211 Lee Street. “Pilar” will be on display through mid July, 20, and open to the public during regular Centro hours.

The Alkek Library has Veronique Hahn's publications available for checkout in the Juvenile Collection on the 6th floor of the library.

Interesting Image and More Sites

Here are a couple of interesting image sites I have recently discovered. They include public domain and creative commons images. Be sure and read their terms of use for each site, give credits and enjoy!

Europeana: Think Culture

Description from their About Us page:

• "Europeana enables people to explore the digital resources of Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections. It promotes discovery and networking opportunities in a multilingual space where users can engage, share in and be inspired by the rich diversity of Europe's cultural and scientific heritage. Ideas and inspiration can be found within the millions of items on Europeana. These objects include:
  
• Images - paintings, drawings, maps, photos and pictures of museum objects
• Texts - books, newspapers, letters, diaries and archival papers
• Sounds - music and spoken word from cylinders, tapes, discs and radio broadcasts
• Videos - films, newsreels and TV broadcasts"

The Public Domain Review

From their Collections page:

• "Collections of films, audio, images and texts which are no longer protected by copyright. Trawling through the Internet Archive, Wikimedia Commons and other such sites, we bring you a continuously growing and curated slice of what the public domain has to offer. Most material featured is in the public domain worldwide but the rights status of some works (particular films) may vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, so do check before reusing."

 The Cheetah (1886) from The Bestiarium of Aloys Zötl (1831-1887) from The Public Domain Review

Your Paintings

From their About Us page:

• Your Paintings is a website which aims to show the entire UK national collection of oil paintings, the stories behind the paintings, and where to see them for real. It is made up of paintings from thousands of museums and other public institutions around the country. Your Paintings is a joint initiative between the BBC, the Public Catalogue Foundation (a registered charity) and participating collections and museums from across the UK. You can create your own collection of paintings and add tags.

Finding Images Workshop 1/31, 2:30-4pm

Hello and welcome back! I will be offering a Finding Images workshop this Thursday, 1/31/13 from 2:30-4pm in Alkek 101. For the description and a link to reserve your seat for this free workshop see the library's Workshops page. Thanks!

Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum makes its digital collection of 125,000 masterpieces free to all

Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum makes its digital collection of 125,000 masterpieces free to all

They are encouraging people to download and use the copy-right free images to make their own art to be released on the museum's site later. Their site is interactive allowing users to share, download, manipulate, and add images to a "personal studio". 

Call for Applications: ARLIS/NA Gerd Muehsam Award

Call for Applications: ARLIS/NA Gerd Muehsam Award

The Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) is accepting applications for the Gerd Muehsam Award. This award is given annually for a student paper or web project focused on a topic relevant to art librarianship or visual curatorship. Current students and recent graduates in library studies, art history, museum studies, and studio art are eligible to apply.

The deadline for applications is November 30, 2012.

For detailed information about the award and application instructions please see the ARLIS/NA web site: http://www.arlisna.org/about/awards/muehsam_info.html

"Art UnHitched" Call For Art Vendors

"Art UnHitched"is offering free space to artists to sell their art, on a first come, first serve basis at The Hitch: A Mobile Eatery here in San Marcos on October 20th. For submission instructions and more info see their Call For Art Vendors!