The ARTstor image database is a searchable collection of downloadable high-quality digital images for education and scholarship. The database documents artistic and historical traditions across many time periods and cultures.

ARTstor is designed for researchers, teachers and students.

Users can download individual images or use the ARTstor Offline Image Viewer to build a presentation using ARTstor images, arrange and caption the images, and deliver the presentation in the classroom. Note: if you want to click on a thumbnail image in ARTstor to view it, you must disable your computer's pop-up blocker.

What is ARTstor?

Tips for teaching with ARTstor

Get PDF handouts on interdisciplinary uses of ARTstor

Use ARTstor

Using ARTstor in the classroom at Southwestern:

If you plan to use ARTstor to create and deliver classroom presentations, you will need to ask ITS to install the ARTstor Offline Image Viewer (OIV) software on the classroom workstation.

Call the ITS Help Desk at x7333, and please give them at least 2 working days' notice before you plan to make the presentation. In order to organize your images prior to a class presentation that will use the OIV, you will need the OIV installed on your office or home computer as well, and that installation does not require ITS assistance--you can download the software from the ARTstor web site yourself onto your own machine. In other words, you will only need ITS assistance when working with ARTstor on Southwestern University classroom computers.

If you have questions or feedback on ARTstor email Dana Hendrix