Art & Design
Assistant Professor Liz Gruchala-Gilbert is the liaison librarian for Art & Design
Office: #129 Main floor of the library
Phone: 206-281-2790
Email: lgg@spu.edu
Core Resources
- International Bibliography of Art - This is a scholarly resource on European art from late antiquity to the present, American art from the colonial era to the present, and global art since 1945.(SPU Only)
- Bibliography of the History of Art - This is a scholarly resource on European art from late antiquity to the present, American art from the colonial era to the present, and global art since 1945.(SPU Only)
- Index of Christian Art - indexes works of art produced without geographical limitations from early apostolic times up to circa A.D. 1550.(SPU Only)
- CAMIO: Catalog of Art Museum Images Online - offers online images documenting works of art from around the world and representing the collections of prominent museums.(SPU Only)
- Academic Search Premier - This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. Its coverage ranges from 1984 to the present, with some back files (to 1975) and searchable cited references available.(SPU Only)
- Research Library Complete - covers a broad range of topics, with coverage extending from 1971 to the present.(SPU Only)
- America: History and Life - This index of literature covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present, with indexing for 1,700 journals published as early as 1910.(SPU Only)
Additional Resources
- JSTOR - offers digitized versions of core scholarly journals in many disciplines.(SPU Only)
- Google Scholar - This search engine searches for scholarly research across many disciplines and sources. By starting your Google search from the SPU pages, the results will link to SPU-owned full-text.
Oxford Art Online
"Oxford Art Online offers access to the most authoritative, inclusive, and easily searchable online art resources available today. Through a single, elegant gateway users can access—and simultaneously cross-search—an expanding range of Oxford’s acclaimed art reference works: Grove Art Online, the Benezit Dictionary of Artists, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, as well as many specially commissioned articles and bibliographies available exclusively online."
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Seattle Area Museums Art Education (K-12) News Research
Seattle Area Museums
Seattle Art Museum (Downtown): Students $9 with ID
Free days:
First Thursdays (everyone)
Second Fridays (ages 13-19
with ID, 5-9pm)
Frye Art Museum (First Hill) : Always free to everyone!
Bellevue Arts Museum - Arts, Crafts, Design : Students $7 with ID
Free days:
First Fridays
(everyone, 11am - 8pm)
Tacoma Art Museum : Students $8 with ID
Free Days:
Third Thursdays (5-8pm)
Bibliography of the History of Art - Search for articles (1973 - 2009); free to all.
International Bibliography of Art - Search for articles (1960 - present); SPU log-in required for off-campus access.
Art Images for College Teaching (AICT) - "AICT is intended primarily to disseminate images of art and architectural works in the public domain on a free-access, free-use basis to all levels of the educational community, as well as to the public at large. The images displayed on this site have been photographed on location by the author, who consents to their use in any application that is both educational and non-commercial in nature."
Art Babble - art on video, video on art; from the Indianapolis Museum of Art
InformeDesign : Research summaries on design topics from the Univeristy of Minnesota
Larsen: A Living Archive : Images from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts' collection of textiles from Jack Lenor Larsen textile company and design studio
The History of Interior Design : an article by John Pile from Architecture Week
Design Knowledge Research: from the American Society of Interior Designers, features current news and research
Architecture and Interior Design Photo Collection: photographs by Samuel Gottscho and William Schleisner, 1935-1955 from the American Memory project, Library of Congress
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Online Collections: includes product design & decorative arts, textiles and wallcoverings.
Design Nation: top British designers show their work
Design Addict's list of Interior Designers: over 1000 designers and studios worldwide
Interiors & Sources Magazine: "excellence in commercial design"