Department of Visual Arts at Cal State Fullerton

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Images for Teaching and Learning

Introduction

The Visual Resources Image Collection, located on the first floor of the E building in the Visual Arts complex, stores and gives access to art and architecture images used for instruction and study. All materials limited to educational non-commercial use.

Students and faculty are encouraged to contact the collection curator for more information on what is available to you. Call, email or drop by.

Office Information

Location: VA-191B

Phone: (714) 278-3891

Hours: 10-2, 3-5 Monday through Thursday, also by appointment.

Staff: Debra Winters

Services

For students and faculty:

  • ArtStor Image Database – a collection of 700,000 digital images for presentation and study. Group or individualized instruction is available in the VRIC.
  • Digital image searching strategies for other publicly available images
  • Art and Art history research assistance

For faculty only:

  • Scanning of instructional images – digital images will be archived for the department instruction collection (some limitations)
  • Access to department instructional digital image collection (approx. 10,000 images)
  • Access to department slide collection (95,000 slides)
  • Digital and slide projectors available for on-campus art department loan from Dennis Yuan VA106A (714-278-3472)
  • Smart classroom room reservations Gail Dawson VA102 (714-278-3471)

Additional image collections of interest:

  • World Art Kiosk
  • Grove Art (Pollak Library)
  • Pollak Library Audio Visual Collection

Donations:

  • The VRIC will accept donations of digital art images (some limitations) as long as:
  • The images match the scope of department instruction
  • Image quality meets archival standards
  • Educational copyright use is also given

Off-campus access:

  • Due to copyright issues and in order to limit image usage to educational purposes, access is restricted to CSUF students, faculty and staff only.
  • No art authentication or evaluation services available - please contact commercial auction houses.