Creative Arts Websites

See the  Creative Arts Department homepage for a description of Siena's program.

Metasites (Websites)

Archives of American Art--from the Smithsonian Institution; contains primary source materials such as diaries, letters, manuscripts, photographs, films, audio recordings that document American culture for over 200 years.
Musical Organizations and Professional Societies --William and Gayle Cook Music Library, Indiana University
Web Sources for Design – North Carolina State University 
Architecture and Building Web Resources– University of Nevada at Las Vegas  
American Memory Digital Image Database--Library of Congress
Art History: Resources on the Web
Ethnomusicology, Folk Music, and World Music– Music Library, University of Washington
Artcyclopedia
Resource list for studio art
Art History Resource Centre
Structurae
Dictionary of Art Historians--from Duke University's Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies
New York Foundation for the Arts: For Artists
Art Project--from Google

Visual Arts and Architecture

American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life: 1765-1915
Architecture and Building
Pioneering Modern Painting: Cezanne and Pissarro 1865-1885
The Saul Steinberg Foundation
Japanese Pottery Information Center
Émigré
The National Museum of American Illustration
National Portrait Gallery: Sitters, artists and photographers talking
The Daguerreian Society and the Daguerreotype
The Correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot
The Norton Museum of Art
Hypnerotomachia poliphili
Canada's Digital Collections
International Dada Archive
The Tate Gallery
Architect Studio 3D
Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre
Cycles: African Life Through Art
Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) Visual Arts
University of Michigan Art Image Browser 
William Blake Archive
New York Public Library Digital Gallery – Arts & Literature
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
Prints and Photographs Online Catalog  
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
Imagebase
Global Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Smithsonian Archives of American Art
Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery: Portrait Search
Van Gogh’s Letters
Ask/Art 
ArtLex: Dictionary of Visual Art
Art & Architecture Thesaurus Online
Louvre Atlas Database of Exhibits
ProjectNORMAN -from the Norman Rockwell Museum
Treasures from Heaven--online exhibit from the British Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art  Libraries Digital Collections

Music

Hector Berlioz Website
Internet Archive: Audio: Live Music Archive
Library of Congress National Jukebox
Louisiana State Museum Jazz Collection
Ludwig von Beethoven: the magnificent master 
The Metropolitan Opera 
African Music Encyclopedia
Afrocentric Voices in “Classical” Music
Opera Glass
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Roger Reynolds Collection
Smithsonian Folkways
Petrucci Music Library--from the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
Sibley Music Library: Musical Scores--from the University of Rochester
Bachtrack:  The World's Best Way to Find Live Classical Music--focuses mostly on US, UK, and European orchestras

Professional Associations and Societies

College Art Association
International Center of Medieval Art
NYFA (New York Foundation for the Arts)
International Alliance for Women in Music
American Music Conference
Society for Music Theory
International Foundation for Art Research (IFAR)
AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts): The Professional Association for Design

Databases

A list of databases relevant to Creative Arts.

Creative Arts Journals

Use when you have a citation and want to know if Siena has the journal.

Print and electronic journals for Creative Arts

Remember to check CYRIL, the Siena Library catalog, for other resources