Blog Topic: Visual literacy

Educator Carson Smith shares a student research project that uses JSTOR and Workspace to help learners slow down, analyze art deeply, and build visual literacy skills.

Explore the many ways grief is represented in art, archives, and personal expression. This blog post examines historical and contemporary depictions of mourning, from letters to lost loved ones to visual tributes like the AIDS Memorial Quilt, revealing how creative practices help us process loss.

Examples and case studies that show how Artstor on JSTOR can be used to enhance the teaching and learning of medicine and medical history.

Artstor on JSTOR provides half a million images documenting architecture across the world, from ancient architecture to contemporary buildings.

Discover how Artstor's images elevate literature education and explore two compelling case studies from a UC Irvine professor and a Philadelphia Museum of Art educator.

Artstor on JSTOR virtual field trips foster equity, boost engagement, and build visual literacy through immersive, accessible online learning experiences.

Spring is here! The return of sunshine inspired us to look at Botticelli’s Primavera, a masterpiece of the early Renaissance and arguably the most popular artistic representation of the season, even if – as we shall see – its interpretation remains inconclusive. Botticelli painted Primavera sometime between 1477 and 1482, probably for the marriage of […]

Katherine Murrell Instructor of Art History Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design In my class on women artists from the medieval period onward, one of the first activities students were asked to do was to work in small groups and write a list of ten female painters or sculptors active before 1950, but without looking […]

Dr. Martha Hollander Professor Hofstra University My research and teaching in art history has always focused on the ways in which a single work of art can open up an entire world of knowledge, making vivid and real the otherwise rather bland term “historical context.” For the past few years I have been working on […]