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The South Side Community Art Center’s Collection: Creating a Devoted, Public Collection in the University of Chicago’s LUNA Database Madden, Assistant Director, Visual Resources Center, University of VRA 2014 Session 2: Case Studies in International Resources March 12, 2014
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Presented by Bridget Madden at the Annual Conference of the Visual Resources Association, March 12-15, 2014 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Session #2: Case Studies in International Resources MODERATOR: Bridget Madden, University of Chicago PRESENTERS: Bridget Madden, University of Chicago Patrice-Andre Prud'homme, Illinois State University Amy Robinson, University for the Creative Arts (UK) Andrea Schuler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology This session will present four web resources that are international in origin, audience, material, and/or scope. The presenters will discuss various aspects of visual resources librarianship, including project management, workflow, cataloging, digitization, digital library platform design, interactive and special features, digital preservation, and collaboration. Andrea Schuler will present the new digital library for Archnet, Patrice-Andre Prud’homme will speak about the creation of an interactive website for Niiyama Poetic Japanese Pottery, Amy Robinson will present the Zandra Rhodes Digital Study Collection which features digitized materials from the designer’s archive, and Bridget Madden will discuss hosting a public collection of the South Side Community Art Center’s images at an academic institution.
Transcript of VRA 2014 Case Studies in International Resources, Madden
The South Side Community Art Center’s Collection:
Creating a Devoted, Public Collection in the University of Chicago’s LUNA
Database
Bridget Madden, Assistant Director, Visual Resources Center, University of Chicago
VRA 2014 Session 2: Case Studies in International ResourcesMarch 12, 2014
SSCAC
Howard Simmons, left, with fellow photographers Bob Black, John White, and Ovie Carter, photographed by Howard Simmons outside the South Side Community Art Center in 1973
Archibald Motley, Jr., Sunday in the Park, 1941.
------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Collection South Side Community Art Center Creator William Walker (American artist, 1927-2011) Title Untitled Date creation: 20th century Material acrylic on hardboard Measurement 35-3/4 in (height) x 48 in (width) Culture American Location United States, Illinois, Chicago, South Side Community Art Center 188 [repository] Image ID 811188 Style or Period Modern; 20th Century Extended Title Untitled (cited, English, preferred) Subject Black Arts Movement Subject South Side Community Art Center Subject South Side (Chicago, IL) Subject Artists, Chicago Subject Crosses Subject Mural painting and decoration Subject Hopscotch Image Source South Side Community Art Center (SSCAC), Digital Images of SSCAC Art Collection; For educational use only. Course Number and Instructor Zorach
William Walker, Untitled, n.d.
------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Collection South Side Community Art Center Creator Barbara Jones-Hogu (American artist, born 1938) Title Black Men We Need You Date creation: 1971 Material serigraph Culture American Location United States, Illinois, Chicago, South Side Community Art Center 96 [repository] Image ID 811096 Style or Period Modern; 20th Century Extended Title Black Men We Need You (creator, English, preferred) Subject Black Arts Movement Subject South Side Community Art Center Subject South Side (Chicago, IL) Subject Artists, Chicago Subject AFRICOBRA (Artists’ group) Subject African Americans in art Image Source South Side Community Art Center (SSCAC), Digital Images of SSCAC Art Collection; For educational use only. Course Number and Instructor Zorach
Barbara Jones-Hogu, Black Men We Need You, 1971.
Bob Black, Point of No Return, n.d.
Margaret Taylor Burroughs, In School–Together, n.d.
Ralph Arnold, Love Sign II, 1995.
------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Collection South Side Community Art Center Creator John H. White (American artist, born 1945) Title Hal-Le-Lu-Ia Date creation: 20th century Material black and white photograph Measurement 19-1/2 in (height) x 15-1/2 in (width) Culture American Location United States, Illinois, Chicago, South Side Community Art Center 216 [repository] Image ID 811216 Style or Period Modern; 20th Century Extended Title Hal-Le-Lu-Ia (cited, English, preferred) Subject Black Arts Movement Subject South Side Community Art Center Subject South Side (Chicago, IL) Subject Artists, Chicago Subject African Americans in art Subject Rain and rainfall Subject Photojournalism Image Source South Side Community Art Center (SSCAC), Digital Images of SSCAC Art Collection; For educational use only. Course Number and Instructor Zorach
John H. White, Hal-Le-Lu-La, n.d.
Rebecca Zorach
• Professor of Art History, Romance Languages, and the College at the University of Chicago
• Research interests include late medieval and Renaissance art and art in Chicago in the 1960s, especially the Black Arts Movement
Grants Supporting the SSCAC Project
• $5,000 Partnership-in-Scholarship Grant for African American Places from the National Trust for Historic Preservation
• University of Chicago Arts Council Curricular Innovation Grant
• Zorach’s own research fund
VRC Workflow
• FileMaker Pro instance of VCat (VRA Core 4.0 compliant)
• LUNA online image database• Google Docs Spreadsheet created by Zorach
and her interns to inventory SSCAC collection• Conservation documents
ARTH 17505: The Black Arts Movement in Chicago
• Undergraduate course taught by Zorach in Winter 2013
• Visits to the SSCAC and supplemental viewing of images online in LUNA
Bridget [email protected]@uchivrc
South Side Community Art Center in LUNAhttp://luna.lib.uchicago.edu/luna/servlet/uofclibmgr2~4~4
University of Chicago Visual Resources Centerhttp://arthistory.uchicago.edu/vrc
