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 media graphics to customizable email and web copy, our toolkit has everything you need to promote your library’s resources.

Web and social media resources

Reach your students and faculty easily with pre-written, customizable content and social media templates for use in emails, blog posts, news pages, and/or social media.

Training and teaching resources

Access quick-start guides and step-by-step instructions on how to use Artstor on JSTOR in teaching and research in the format of your choice. Find ready-to-use activities and assignments so your faculty can incorporate Artstor on JSTOR into their teaching right away.

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Insights and updates from Artstor on JSTOR

A garden gnome with a red hat and blue coat sits among piles of old photographic slides, waving with one hand.
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.

Detail of a portrait of a young girl standing confidently in a white ruffled dress decorated with colorful flowers, set against a bright pink patterned background. Painted in an expressive, textured style by Gustav Klimt.
Resource

Slow art: Analyzing art in an image-saturated age

Help students slow down and truly see art in an image-saturated age. Adapted from art historian Carson Smith’s classroom project, this resource guides students in creating their own mock museum exhibitions using JSTOR and Artstor. Through “slow looking,” collaborative research, and curatorial storytelling, students practice visual analysis, connect art to cultural context, and rediscover the joy of attentive seeing.

Art Nouveau illustration of a woman with long dark braids, hoop earrings, and a headscarf, holding a circular stringed instrument against a patterned background.
Blog

Teaching slow looking: Guiding students to engage deeply with art

Learn how a slow-looking project helps students engage deeply with artworks, build visual analysis skills, and create collaborative exhibitions using JSTOR and Artstor resources.

A portrait of a woman wearing a wide-brimmed straw hat and a sheer white shawl, holding a basket of grapes, set against a soft gray-blue background.
Blog

Now available on JSTOR: Highlights from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is an encyclopedic museum with collections from across the globe. The images contributed to Artstor from the museum’s over 42,000 works of art reflect the diversity of the collections and 5,000 years of human culture.

Red, white, yellow, and blue Nike sneakers worn by Big Boi of Outkast, 2005-2006. The shoes feature a bold color-blocking design with a yellow Nike swoosh on the sides. They are part of the National Museum of African American History and Culture collection.
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Bring the world to your classroom: Using Artstor on JSTOR for engaging virtual field trips

Discover how to create virtual field trips with Artstor on JSTOR to bring the world into your classroom. Explore ways to foster equity, visual literacy, and engagement—no travel required. Includes a ready-to-use sample lesson plan.

Cover of Common Lives/Lesbian Lives, a lesbian quarterly magazine. The title appears in red serif font at the top. Below the title, a Black woman in athletic clothing sits on grass, resting her arms on a rugby ball. She wears a striped rugby shirt, dark pants, high socks, and cleats. The photo is sepia-toned. At the bottom, the issue number is labeled “fifteen/sixteen” in red.
Blog

Monthly-wrap up: Spotlighting pride, prison newspapers, and a painter in June

We hope this blog post finds you with a spare moment to explore something new! June’s releases on JSTOR brought together book-length research, community newspapers, […]

Book cover of Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity by Monica L. Miller. The cover features a stylishly dressed Black man in a double-breasted suit with a flower boutonnière, sitting on a vintage green couch in a confident, posed manner.
Blog

Monthly wrap-up: Maps, movements, and miniature pills in May

May’s additions to JSTOR opened new ways to engage with visual culture, political history, and everyday life.

Women’s sports teams. 1940. University Archives, University of Pennsylvania.
Blog

Digitally archived primary sources are imperative to higher education

What would your classroom look like if students engaged with knowledge as detectives rather than passive readers? The answers lie in digital primary sources. And education depends on how we use them.

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Blog

Winnipeg Art Gallery-Qaumajuq and Artstor on JSTOR: Making Canadian, Inuit, and Indigenous art more accessible

WAG-Qaumajuq is making its world-renowned collection of Canadian, Inuit, and Indigenous art more accessible—inviting global audiences to connect with these powerful works and the stories they hold.

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A pair of Nike sneakers in white with bright red, blue, and yellow suede panels, shown from the front.

Manufactured by Nike Inc. Red, White, Yellow, and Blue Nike Sneakers Worn by Big Boi of Outkast. 2005-2006. Part of Open: Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture, Artstor.