Digital Imaging
Digital Wunderkammer
Created by students in AR-215: Digital Imaging
Wunderkammer, otherwise known as cabinets of curiosities, were eclectic and elaborately displayed collections where the collector creatively assigned the categories. The first wunderkammer, collections of art, natural specimens, artifacts, and oddities appeared in the 1600’s and 1700’s and are considered predecessors to modern day natural history museums and art museums. In some ways, certain websites, and even the Internet as a whole, may be thought of as one, nearly infinite digital wunderkammer. For this project, students created their own small version of a digital wunderkammer.
Art History Websites
Several of our art history courses involve primary research on local architecture and social history. Some require students to report their work via original websites, a sampling of which are below.
Winooski Mills
Created by students in Art 381: Special Topics in Art
Both this site and the Fort Ethan Allen site had substantial response from the public, chiefly from people who have searched for information about relatives who lived and worked at the fort and mills.
Historic Fort Ethan Allen
Created by students in Art 381: Special Topics in Art
This site won the George B. Bryan award for excellence in a Vermont research project, from the Center for Research on Vermont at the University of Vermont.
Shelburne Museum Collections
This site marks a new partnership with the Shelburne Museum, one of the nation's finest museums of art and Americana and only a 15-minute drive from our campus. Every other year, a class of students will add to research on the museum collections, further developing this this Web site begun in 2004. The research here is quite diverse, including history of art, architecture and material culture from the 18th through 20th centuries.
African Art
Highlights student research on West African art and culture.