Level up your college readiness curriculum with Artstor on JSTOR
No deepfakes. Just trustworthy images and multimedia to boost visual learning. Visual literacy is a critical skill for college success. Artstor on JSTOR bridges the gap between traditional text-based research and powerful visual exploration, offering access to over 2 million high-quality images alongside trusted JSTOR resources.
Why Artstor on JSTOR for your school
Artstor on JSTOR offers educators and students a single, reliable platform for teaching, learning, and visual analysis.
- Diverse and interdisciplinary: Access a vast collection of over 2 million images spanning art, history, anthropology, and more.
- Credibility and context: All images are sourced from leading museums, libraries, and archives and include accurate metadata.
- Interactive learning: Zoom, compare, and create image-based presentations with built-in teaching tools.
- Seamless integration: Use Artstor within the JSTOR platform alongside scholarly journals, books, and primary sources.
Artstor on JSTOR is the perfect solution for:
- Arts and humanities classes: Deepen understanding of artistic movements, cultural artifacts, and historical periods.
- Social science courses: Analyze visual evidence alongside primary documents and research articles.
- Developing research skills: Teach students to evaluate, cite, and use visual information responsibly.
- Preparing for college: Build visual literacy and critical analysis skills essential for college-level study.
How we help your school get the most out of Artstor on JSTOR
- Librarian resources: Explore curated guides and tools to integrate Artstor into your library or classroom.
- Faculty training: Access webinars, tutorials, and case studies to help you make the most of Artstor’s teaching tools and classroom applications.
- Student support: Use interactive tools, tutorials, and our free self-paced Research Basics course to strengthen your visual literacy, research, and critical thinking skills.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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Anne Weston, Francis Crick Institute. Silverfish Scales. n.d. Part of Open: Wellcome Collection, Artstor.
Christopher Dresser. Wave Bowl. ca. 1880. Part of Open: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Artstor.
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.
Chinese. Jar with Winged Animals over Waves. Mid-15th century. Part of Open: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Artstor.
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