Arts & Humanities Resources
The VML Hub's primary mission is to research, acquire, and provide access to creditable high-quality images and multimedia resources in support of the arts and humanities curriculum and learning.
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Jordan Crandell. Trigger, 2000. Video. 10nma_148_134
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Gunnar Aagaard Andersen. Armchair, 1964. Polyurethane and rubber. dva2304
LUNA
Digital Repository
LUNA enables faculty and students to discover, explore, and share more than 250,000 resources through the VML Hub curriculum-based collections along with assets from our sister academic institutions, including Cornell University, Brown University, and Pratt Institute of Art, to name a few.
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Jan Vermeer (Dutch 1622 - 1669 or 1670). A Young Woman with a Water Pitcher, ca. 1662. Oil on canvas. 07dpmmap879_203
Arts & Humanities Collections
Art, Design, & Culture and the Amica Art Library are the main CVPA teaching and learning collections. Each represents western and non-western design, visual, and material works of art, architecture and archaeological sites, and cultural artifacts throughout the centuries. In recent years, the collection has expanded its holdings to include late 20th_ and 21st_ century artworks representing new media and technology, installation, gaming, animation, and social practice.
Public Collections
LUNA has several public collections, including architectural drawings of the UMass Dartmouth campus by Paul Rudolph, CVPA college and thesis collections, and the University Art Galleries archives.
Research Collections
For the purpose of research, evaluation, and scholarship, some collections are restricted to specific groups within the university community. Please contact the VML Hub for more information.
LUNA
Features & Training
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Leesa Abahuni and Nicole Abahuni (American). Chaotic Robotic Synesthesia, 2000. Performing Art
Logon: To adhere to copyright requirements, the LUNA curriculum-based image & media collections are restricted to the UMassD community and require university email credentials for access.
- Click on "LOGIN" at the upper right corner of the banner.
- Enter your UMassD email username (do not enter @umassd.edu) and your UMassD password.
Access to Links: For copyright reasons, you must be login to LUNA to activate the link.
Training:
- One-on-one training is available at the VML Hub or in-office (no appointment is necessary).
- Group training can be held at the VML Hub or in the classroom.
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Pieter I. Bruegel. Peasant Wedding, 1568. Oil on panel
Media Groups: Are a collection of image and media files under a single heading (similar to a folder of image files).
Locate a Media Group (more info)
- Select a collection “Art, Design and Culture” and/or Amica” (main CVPA collections)
- Click “Browse All” to view and search the collection.
- Click on Explorer and then Media Groups.
- Enter the name of the media group or keyword in the search box in the right-hand column “Public Media Groups”.
- Once you located the media group click to open.
Create a Media Group (more info)
- Select a collection “Art, Design and Culture” and/or Amica” (main CVPA collections)
- Click “Browse All” to view and search the collection.
- Click on Explorer and then Media Groups.
- Left column “myMediaGroup” click on “Create Media Group”, complete form and save.
- Your “Media Group” appears on a tab located at the bottom of the browse window.
Help is available during hours of operation. Please contact Allison J. Cywin at 508-999-8701 or email.
MUSEUMS, ARCHIVES & LIBRARIES COLLECTIONS
No more searching for collections on museums, archives, and libraries websites, we have done the work by providing direct links to collections around the world. Just click the link and start searching.
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Georgia O'Keeffe. Evening Star III, 1917. Watercolor on paper
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Claude Monet. Blue Water Lilies, ca. 1916 - 1919. Oil paint on canvas
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Claude Monet. The Hay Ricks, Late Summer, 1891. Oil paint on canvas
- 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
- Art Images for College Teaching (created by Art historian, Allan T. Kohl -ancient, medieval, and renaissance European art)
- Art Institute of Chicago (more than 100,000 works)
- Asian Art Museum, San Francisco (more than 10,000 works)
- Boston College (Art & Architecture links)
- British Museum (2,335,000 images)
- Brooklyn Museum (more than 110,000 works)
- California State University - WorldImages Kiosk (100,000 images)
- Carnegie Museum (89,000 works)
- Cartoon Art Museum (selected works)
- Castello di Rivoli, Italy
- Centre George Pompidou, Paris
- Chrysler Museum of Fine Arts (30,000 works)
- Clark Art Institute (database)
- Cleveland Museum of Art (database)
- Cooper Hewitt: National Design Museum (selected works)
- Corcoran, Washington, D.C. (database)
- Dallas Museum of Art (25,000 works)
- DeCordova Museum, Massachusetts (3,500 works)
- Denver Art Museum (68,000 works)
- Detroit Institute for Arts (more than 60,000 works)
- Digital Public Library of America (33,5356,000 works)
- Duke University Hartman Center for Sales (Advertising & Marketing History (database)
- Europeana (58,974,584 artworks, artifacts, books, films and music from European museums, archives, galleries and libraries)
- Five Colleges, Amherst Massachusetts (database)
- Flicker Commons
- Frick Museum, New York (database)
- Gardiner Museum, California (ceramics)
- George Eastman Museum (photographs)
- Guggenheim Museum, USA (7,000 works)
- Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (database)
- Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (database)
- Internet Archive (2.6 million general images)
- International Advertising & Design (images & posters)
- Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (database)
- J Paul Getty Museum (database)
- Kyoto National Museum (10,000 works)
- Kimbell Art Museum (350 works)
- Kröller-Müller Museum, Netherlands
- Library of Congress (American illustrations, photographs, graphics)
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art (50,000 works)
- Louvre (database)
- Medieval Art and Architecture France Chartres (database)
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (more than 500,000 works)
- Minneapolis Institute of Arts (selected works)
- Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (database)
- Musee de'Orsay, Paris (database)
- Museum of Fine Art, Boston (346,000 works)
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (database)
- Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York (800,000 works)
- Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Spain
- Guimet (Middle Eastern & Asia antiquities)
- Museum of Picasso, Paris (selected works)
- National Gallery of Art, United States (database)
- National Gallery, United Kingdom (database)
- National Gallery of Scotland (selected works)
- National Museums of Tokyo (database)
- National Museum of Women in the Arts (database)
- The Archives of Ontario Visual Database (database)
- National Portrait Gallery, United Kingdom (200,000 works)
- New York Public Library (database)
- New York Art Resources (MOMA, NY Public Library & Frick)
- Peggy Guggenheim Collection (database)
- Philadelphia Museum of Art (115,000 works)
- Prado Museum (1,000 works)
- Rice Gallery highlights
- Rhode Island School of Design, Museum of Art (database)
- Rijksmuseum, Netherlands (662,225 works)
- RKD, Netherlands (Dutch and Northern European)
- Saatchi Gallery (selected works)
- Smithsonian Museums (14.1 million works)
- Smithsonian American Art (database)
- SIRIS Smithsonian American Archives (database)
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (database)
- TATE, Britain (database)
- Tokyo National Museum (database)
- University of California Berkeley, Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) (database)
- University of Maryland Digital Collections (database)
- University of Virginia Digital Collections (database)
- University of Washington - Digital Collections (database)
- VADA -database of arts and humanities resources for UK Higher Education Community
- Victoria and Albert Museum, United Kingdom (database)
Interviews, Talks, and Virtual Tours
A collection of links to interviews, lectures, and talks with artists, curators & critics from museums and art organizations around the world.
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Dan Collins. Return to the Garden, 2003. Internet and interactive software
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Vanessa Beecroft. VB46.026.ai, 2001. Mix media installation
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Shelley Eshkar, Paul Kaiser, & Merce Cunningham. Hand-drawn Spaces, 1998. Animation and computer art
- Art Institute of Chicago - artists videocast interviews & collection video tours
- Art Gallery of NSW (Art Museums, Australia
- British Museum - artists videocast interviews & collection video tours
- Carnegie Museum of Art
- Cincinnati Art Museum - interviews, & discussions with artists and gallery tours
- Clark Art Institute, Massachusetts - videocasts
- Cleveland Museum of Modern Art - behind the scenes (museum staff lecture)
- Cleveland Museum of Modern Art - interviews, & discussions with artists and gallery tours
- Contemporary Art Museum - videocasts & audio casts
- Courtauld Institute of Art - videocast interviews, & discussions with artists and gallery tours
- Dallas Museum of Art - videocast interviews, & discussions with artists and gallery tours
- Frick, New York – videocast lectures
- Harvard Art Museums - videocast interviews, & discussions with artists and gallery tours
- J. Paul Getty Museum - collection video tours
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art - videocast interviews, & discussions with artists and gallery tours
- Metropolitan Museum, New York - videocast interviews, & discussions with artists and gallery tours
- MOMA Red Studio - collection video tours & artists interviews
- MOMA Interactive Resources - teaching resources
- Museum of Arts and Design, New York - videocasts on arts, crafts, & design
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - videocast interviews, & discussions with artists and gallery tours
- Museum of the Moving Image-Pinewood Dialogues - artists audio cast interviews
- National Endowment for the Arts - artists audio casts and videocasts
- National Gallery of Art, United States - artists interviews & exhibition audio/video collections
- National Gallery, United Kingdom - collection video tours
- National Museum of Australia - cultural, history & anthropology lectures
- National Science and Media Museum - artists interviews & exhibition audio/video collections
- Philadelphia Museum of Art - collection video & audio tours
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - videocast interviews, & discussions with artists and gallery tours
- Saatchi Gallery– videocasts
- Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery - artists videocast interviews
- TATE Channel - artists videocasts interviews & collection video tours
- Victoria and Albert Museum -- artists videocasts interviews & collection video tours
- Vimeo - videocast interviews, & discussions with artist & art historians
- 360 Cities - panoramic architecture videos tours
- Asia Society Collection - virtual gallery tours
- The California Institute of World Archaeology - virtual tour
- The Frick Collection: Virtual Tour - virtual gallery tours
- Google Art Project
- Peggy Guggenheim Collection - virtual gallery tours
- Louvre Virtual Tours - virtual tours
- Medieval Art and Architecture France Chartres - virtual tours
- Metropolitan Museum 360 Project
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs Japan - interactive Japanese Art
- Museo Galileo, Institute and Museum of the History of Science - virtual gallery tours
- Musse de'Orsay - collection interactive tours
- National Music Museum -The University of South Dakota - virtual gallery tours
- Oriental Institute - virtual gallery tours
- Smithsonian American Art and the Renwick Gallery - virtual gallery tours
- Vatican Museums Sistine Chapel - virtual tour
- Vatican Museum Virtual Collections - virtual tour
- Saint Peter's Basilica - virtual tours
Copyright Notice
Visual & Media Literacy Hub's digital collections are available to the UMassDartmouth campus community for the sole purpose of instruction, scholarship, and study in accordance with the Visual Resource Association Statement on the Fair Use of Images for Teaching, Research, and Study, and the College Art Association for Best Practice in Fair Use for the Visual Arts. All other uses are strictly prohibited and are subject to U.S. Copyright Laws.