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ARTstor Travel Award 2012
While the digital age is opening up new ways of using images of the world's cultural heritage in teaching and scholarship, there is no substitute for engaging with original works and sites or primary source material, or for attending conferences with colleagues. In recognition of this need, ARTstor is providing 5 travel awards in the amount of $1,500 each to help support the educational and scholarly activities—such as flying to a conference—of graduate students, scholars, curators, educators, and librarians in any field.
To be considered for an award, applicants must create and submit an ARTstor image group (or a series of image groups) and a single accompanying essay that creatively and compellingly demonstrates why these images are useful for teaching, research, or scholarship. We encourage submissions that emphasize how ARTstor may be used for teaching in a wide range of subject areas. Given the growth and interest in research efforts that are discussed as "The Digital Humanities," we would be interested in hearing about uses of the Library that support this emerging set of approaches, such as Asian Studies, Latin American Studies, African-American History, Classics, World History, Natural Science, Math, Costume History, Literature, etc. Winning essays and other selected submissions will be published on the ARTstor Blog, ARTstor website, and via our social media channels.
These submissions help ARTstor better understand the uses that scholars and teachers are making of the Digital Library's content and tools and will provide insight into how we can better serve the educational community.
Rules:
- Applicants must create one or more image groups with a maximum of 100 images total exclusively from the ARTstor Digital Library and save their image group(s) in their registered user account.
- Applicants must submit a single essay in English no longer than 500 words explaining why this image group(s) is exceptionally useful for teaching, research, or scholarship in his/her area of specialization in the arts, architecture, humanities, or sciences. Each applicant may submit only one essay.
- All graduate students, scholars, curators, educators, and librarians who are at least 18 years of age and associated with institutions that subscribe to the ARTstor Digital Library are eligible to apply. The ARTstor Travel Awards are not available for undergraduate study. To see if your institution has ARTstor access, visit our Current subscribers page.
- The names, essays, and image groups of all submitters may be published on the ARTstor website, and may be shared by ARTstor in other venues, such as in the ARTstor blog and the ARTstor newsletter.
- Winners are solely responsible for any taxes or other costs associated with these awards and will receive a 1099 tax form at the end of the year.
- Deadline for entries: 11:59 PM EDT March 16, 2012; Winners announced: May 1, 2012; Awards will be made by: May 15, 2012
Instructions for submitting entries will be posted later this month. Watch for announcements on the ARTstor blog, Facebook, Twitter, and Google+.
Travel Award Winners 2011
Colette Apelian
Fine Art faculty, Berkeley City College
Online Teaching and Architectural Solutions to Climate Problems in the Islamic World
Keri Cronin
Department of Visual Arts faculty, Brock University
Picturing Animals
Jacquelyn DeLombard
Beginnings Pre-School owner/teacher, Philadelphia Museum of Art Teacher Resource Center volunteer
Teaching Shapes, Colors and Size to Young Children
Julia Reinhard Lupton
Professor of English and Comparative Literature, The University of California, Irvine
A Shakespeare Gallery
Elizabeth Perkins
Columbia University graduate student
ARTstor: Making the Case for 'Real' Paintings in the Classroom
Travel Award 2010 Winners
Sara Nair James
Professor of Art History, Mary Baldwin College
A course with no book? ARTstor to the rescue!
Lois Kuyper-Rushing
Associate Librarian and Head, Carter Music Resources Center,
Louisiana State University Libraries
Music Iconography and ARTstor
Katherine E. Manthorne
Professor of Art of the United States, Latin America, and Their Cross-Currents, 1750-1950, Art History Program, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York
Sweet Fortunes: Sugar, Race, Art and Patronage in the Americas, 1750-1950
Kristina Richardson
Assistant Professor of Islamic History, Queens College, The City University of New York
Imagining Disability through Christian and Muslim Bodies
Steven Wills
Coordinator, Wachovia Education Resource Center, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Proportion and Perspective
