repurposed slides from the VRC. Photographed by Andrew Bale.
The Visual Resources Center is part of the Art & Art History Department, assisting faculty and students with visual literacy issues and information for teaching and studying. The collection includes over 200,000 mounted slides and approximately 80,000 digital image records spanning the History of Art and Architecture from prehistoric times to the present. The Visual Resources Center, based in Weiss Center for the Arts Room 222, offers services for digitizing images, art reference and image reference, image presentations, and assistance with Chicago Manual Style citation.
Study Area
The study area is for individual and group work with six 24" iMacs; the current software is Office 365, Keynote, Pages, Numbers, MetaShotPpt, Adobe Creative Cloud, including Photoshop CC, Lightroom, Adobe DC, InDesign, Illustrator and Premiere Pro, and JSTOR's Present feature for presentations and other visual literacy projects. It is set up for printing capability on the same floor. Open 8am-8pm weekdays with keycard access. Art & Art History Majors have priority over space and machines.