“If you could have any resource to help you better develop courses, and enrich students’ understandings of histories of art what would it be...?”
OPEN EDUCATION& PEDAGOGY RESOURCES
There is an extraordinary wealth of freely available content online that can be included in course content. Why not have your students listen to a podcast in lieu of a reading? Or craft a lecture entirely around the process of archival research by using an online collection?
While predominantly Canadian in scope, here we offer a repository of links to resources that might help you to diversify content and its delivery.
PODCASTS
Art Gallery of Ontario Podcasts
Recordings from selected past talks and audio tours.
ACI Podcasts
Art historians discussing the artists who have shaped the Canadian art landscape.
Citizens of Craft
Canadian Crafts Federation Director, Maegen Black, brings together the voices of craft artists, curators, educators and collectors who speak off the cuff about craft practice and its role in their lives.
Mass Culture
Insightful conversations with individuals in the arts on an array of cultural research topics such as the current socio-economic status of artists, new revenue models for the arts, arts for social change
VIDEOS
Canadian Art Magazine Videos
Segments related to the journalism and criticism on Canadian art and culture.
Winnipeg Art Gallery YouTube
Exhibition tours, artist and curator interviews, behind the scenes segments.
Owens TV
Artist talks, lectures, interviews and happenings from the Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University.
National Gallery of Canada YouTube
Exhibition tours, artist and curator interviews, behind the scenes segments.
Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal YouTube
Exhibition tours, artist and curator interviews, behind the scenes segments.
Isuma TV
A collaborative multimedia platform for indigenous filmmakers and media organizations.
Art Canada Institute Art Talks
Curator, artist, and scholar talks in connection to ACI publications.
Museum of Contemporary Art YouTube
Artist talks and guest lectures.
Ryerson Image Centre Ryecast
Artist and curator talks, Tanenbaum Lectures, symposia, and exhibitions.
Art Gallery of Alberta YouTube
Exhibition showcases and video art works.
IMAGE COLLECTIONS
CCCA Canadian Art Database
Includes over 62,000 images and media files, over 3,000 texts, and several projects documenting artist groups, art organizations and events.
Musée McCord Museum
1,500,000 objects, images and manuscripts that are irreplaceable reflections of the social history and material culture of Montreal, Quebec and Canada
National Gallery of Canada Art Databases
Searchable databases of the art collections, provenance research, the Index of Canadian Art to 1930, the Art Metropole Collection, Inuit Artists Print Database, and past exhibitions.
Jarislowsky
Institute for Studies in Canadian Art Project Websites
Databases including: Canadian Portraits; Picturing children and youth; Maritime Art Association; Montreal as Palimpsest; Metro Borduas
WEBSITES
Smarthistory
Smarthistory is the most visited art history resource in the world. They are the official provider of art history for khanacademy.org, and support AP art history and A-level curriculum. Smarthistory supports students, instructors, and lifelong learners everywhere.
Open Arts Objects
Open Arts Objects (OAO) is an open access platform which provides over 50 free films to support the teaching of Art History.
Art Journal Open
Art Journal Open (AJO) is an open-access digital journal for the visual arts, which presents artists’ projects, conversations and interviews, scholarly essays, and other forms of content from across the cultural field. The journal includes a section on Pedagogies.
How-To Guide for using Wikipedia in Art History Classrooms
We’ve developed a new resource for students learning how to edit Wikipedia articles about art history. Thanks to input from art history professors and experienced Wikipedia editors with a specialty in art history, this guide covers what newcomers should know when creating or expanding these articles.
Universities Art Association of Canada
The Universities Art Association of Canada provides a national voice for its membership, composed of university and college faculty, independent scholars and other art professionals in the fields of art, art history and visual culture.
Art History Pedagogy and Practice
Is a peer-reviewed open access e-journal devoted to scholarship of teaching and learning in art history. It is published by Art History Teaching Resources (AHTR), a peer-populated open educational resource, in partnership with the Office of Library Services of the City University of New York and the Graduate Centre at the City University of New York.
International Journal of Digital Art History
The journal seeks to gather current developments in the field of Digital Art History world-wide and to foster discourse on the subject both from Art History and Information Science. The Digital Age has revolutionized economy, society and our private lives. For decades now, digitalization has also touched most branches of the humanities. With the rising importance of the so called Digital Humanities, Art History is at the brink of new ways of accessing its material and gaining unprecedented insights.
Art History Teaching Resources
A peer-populated platform for art history teachers. AHTR is home to a constantly evolving and collectively authored online repository of art history teaching content including, but not limited to, lesson plans, video introductions to museums, book reviews, image clusters, and classroom and museum activities. The site promotes discussion and reflection around new ways of teaching and learning in the art history classroom through a peer-populated blog, and fosters a collaborative virtual community for art history instructors at all career stages.
Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
The mission of The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy is to promote open scholarly discourse around critical and creative uses of digital technology in teaching, learning, and research.
READINGS
ARCHIVES
Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery
Formidable collection of art and document with emphasis on representation of women as cultural subjects and producers and feminist Canadian art of the 20th century.
Courtepointe Québec Quilt Registry
A searchable database of 4,706 quilts from Quebec dating from 1726 to the present day.
National Gallery of Canada Interviews (text)
Acadia University Art Gallery
Collection and documentation on Inuit Art, Canadian & International Works on Paper, and Maritime art.
Morris & Helen Belkin Art Gallery
The materials are especially related to contemporary art since the 1960s, with a strong thematic focus on concrete poetry, mail art, performance art, social art history, and cultural history.