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Unlock the power of visual learning with Artstor on JSTOR

Artstor on JSTOR brings over 2 million high-quality, rights-cleared images into the same trusted platform your students and faculty already use. For community colleges that subscribe to JSTOR, adding Artstor is a seamless way to enhance visual learning, support general education, and strengthen cross-disciplinary instruction.

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Designed to strengthen core curriculum and student engagement

Community colleges play a pivotal role in preparing students for transfer and career success. Artstor on JSTOR supports that mission by providing:

  • Curated image collections across disciplines, including U.S. and world history, art history, literature, and the sciences
  • Visual content aligned with essential skills such as critical thinking, visual literacy, and cultural awareness
  • Built-in tools for teaching and research—no extra training or additional platform required
  • Seamless integration with JSTOR content for easier cross-disciplinary research
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Why add Artstor?

By combining text and image content in one research environment, Artstor on JSTOR helps:

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  • Make abstract or complex topics more relatable through visual examples
  • Engage students with diverse learning preferences
  • Support instructors across departments with teaching-ready materials
  • Build visual literacy in line with 21st-century academic expectations

Maximize the value of your JSTOR access

You’ve already made a valuable investment by providing your faculty and students access to JSTOR. Adding Artstor:

  • Enhances your library’s support for visual literacy and interdisciplinary teaching
  • Simplifies faculty access to visual resources within the same research environment
  • Expands your institution’s ability to meet teaching and learning goals across disciplines
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Artstor on JSTOR in action

Discover stories, resources, and updates on how educators, librarians, and researchers are using Artstor on JSTOR to enrich teaching, learning, and scholarship.

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Now available on Artstor on JSTOR: 1,500 images from the Asheville Art Museum Collection

The Asheville Art Museum has made 1,500 images available on Artstor on JSTOR, highlighting works connected to Black Mountain College, Southern Appalachia, and the changing landscapes of Western North Carolina.

A painted portrait of a dark-haired man with a small mustache, wearing a tan jacket over a white shirt. He faces the viewer against a textured blue-green background. A translucent rectangular overlay crosses the center of the image.
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Now Available on Artstor on JSTOR: The Arshile Gorky Foundation

Explore more than 100 images of Arshile Gorky’s work, contributed to Artstor on JSTOR by the Arshile Gorky Foundation. The collection honors the artist’s legacy and his lifelong engagement with art and art history.

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News

New Artstor on JSTOR Collection Launch: Asheville Art Museum 

Explore more than 1,500 images of American art from the Asheville Art Museum, including works by Black Mountain College artists Ruth Asawa and Robert Rauschenberg, glass artist Mark Peiser, and contemporary artist Wendy Red Star.

Exhibition installation of Tewa Nangeh at the Georgia O’Keeffe museum featuring wall-based artworks across a central wall, flanked by 2 works on perpendicular walls.
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Looking beyond Georgia O’Keeffe: How multidisciplinary research deepens understanding 

An exhibition at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum invites viewers to reconsider O’Keeffe’s New Mexico landscapes through the perspectives of Tewa artists, scholars, and culture bearers. Explore how multidisciplinary research can deepen our understanding of art, place, and colonial history.

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Now available on Artstor on JSTOR: Chinese and Japanese Ceramics from the Gardiner Museum

Explore highlights from the Gardiner Museum’s Chinese and Japanese ceramics collections, now available through Artstor on JSTOR, and discover how porcelain reflects centuries of artistic exchange, trade, and cultural influence.

Wide view of the Ion Bitzan retrospective at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest, showing large paintings displayed around a central exhibition wall featuring a timeline and interpretive text.
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Discover Ion Bitzan on Artstor on JSTOR

Read an authorized excerpt from Cǎlin Dan’s “Ion Bitzan: The Prisoners of the Avant-Garde” and explore installation views from the retrospective exhibition alongside the Ion Bitzan Foundation collection in Artstor on JSTOR.

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In the news

JSTOR’s Artstor | eReview

Artstor, launched in 2003, played a key role in transforming art history from slide-based teaching to a rich digital experience.

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Case study

Charting the course of digital art history: University of California San Diego Library from Artstor to JSTOR

Explore how UC San Diego Library built a transformative 200,000-image digital collection for Artstor, its impact over two decades, and how the Visual Arts Legacy Collection enters a new chapter on JSTOR.

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Artstor promotional toolkit

Let’s get off on the right foot! Boost awareness of Artstor on JSTOR’s rich content and powerful tools with these ready-to-use resources. From eye-catching social […]

Adding Artstor is simple

Expand your institution’s JSTOR access with Artstor. Support visual literacy, cross-disciplinary research, and classroom engagement—all in one trusted platform.

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Close-up image of overlapping blue and green scales with fine ridges and iridescent texture.

Anne Weston, Francis Crick Institute. Silverfish Scales. n.d. Part of Open: Wellcome Collection, Artstor.

Decorative ceramic vessel shaped like a curling wave, glazed in turquoise blue with a yellow interior.

Christopher Dresser. Wave Bowl. ca. 1880. Part of Open: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Artstor.

Japanese woodblock print showing a towering blue wave curling over small boats with rowers, with Mount Fuji visible in the distance beneath a pale sky.

Katsushika Hokusai. Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa Oki Nami Ura), Also Known as The Great Wave, from the Series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku Sanjūrokkei). ca. 1830–32. Part of Open: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Artstor.

Blue and white porcelain jar decorated with mythical winged animals among waves, from 15th-century China.

Chinese. Jar with Winged Animals over Waves. Mid-15th century. Part of Open: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Artstor.

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Bring Artstor on JSTOR to your community college

Transform the way your students learn. Add over 2 million rights-cleared academic images to your JSTOR access—ready to use for teaching, learning, and research.