Artstor on JSTOR
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Explore how UC San Diego Library built a transformative 200,000-image digital collection for Artstor, its impact over two decades, and how the Visual Arts Legacy Collection enters a new chapter on JSTOR.
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Let’s get off on the right foot! Boost awareness of Artstor on JSTOR’s rich content and powerful tools with these ready-to-use resources. From eye-catching social […]
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Explore millions of primary sources on JSTOR—documents, images, artifacts, and data from libraries, archives, and museums worldwide. Discover materials that enrich research and teaching.
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Explore JSTOR’s resources, tools, and services for librarians. Strengthen collections, support faculty and students, and steward your institution’s distinctive materials with confidence.
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Explore JSTOR’s full suite of products and services—from mission-driven digital stewardship and an innovative research platform to flexible content solutions—that support scholarship, teaching, and discovery.
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Help students slow down and truly see art in an image-saturated age. Adapted from art historian Carson Smith’s classroom project, this resource guides students in creating their own mock museum exhibitions using JSTOR and Artstor. Through “slow looking,” collaborative research, and curatorial storytelling, students practice visual analysis, connect art to cultural context, and rediscover the…
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Learn how a slow-looking project helps students engage deeply with artworks, build visual analysis skills, and create collaborative exhibitions using JSTOR and Artstor resources.
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The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is an encyclopedic museum with collections from across the globe. The images contributed to Artstor from the museum’s over 42,000 works of art reflect the diversity of the collections and 5,000 years of human culture.
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Discover how to create virtual field trips with Artstor on JSTOR to bring the world into your classroom. Explore ways to foster equity, visual literacy, and engagement—no travel required. Includes a ready-to-use sample lesson plan.
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We hope this blog post finds you with a spare moment to explore something new! June’s releases on JSTOR brought together book-length research, community newspapers, […]
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May’s additions to JSTOR opened new ways to engage with visual culture, political history, and everyday life.
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What would your classroom look like if students engaged with knowledge as detectives rather than passive readers? The answers lie in digital primary sources. And education depends on how we use them.
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Add Artstor to your JSTOR access and unlock over 2 million rights-cleared images for teaching and research. Strengthen visual literacy and student engagement across disciplines.
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WAG-Qaumajuq is making its world-renowned collection of Canadian, Inuit, and Indigenous art more accessible—inviting global audiences to connect with these powerful works and the stories they hold.
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Two unique new selections of licensed digital images are now available on Artstor on JSTOR, made available through partnerships with Art Resource and Magnum Photos.
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Let’s take a time machine—right at your fingertips—with digital primary sources. Developing digital literacy and primary source analysis skills is essential in higher education, equipping learners not only for academia but also for careers in research, journalism, policy, and beyond.
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Primary sources offer direct, unfiltered access to the voices, images, and documents that shape our understanding of the world and its history. And yet, despite their value, primary source literacy remains an ongoing challenge in higher education.
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When we think about art historical research and teaching, individual artworks often take center stage. But what about the curated exhibitions that shape how we experience and interpret them? Beyond Utility: Rethinking the Value of Exhibition Photos in Art Historical Research and Curation—a session at the 2025 College Art Association (CAA) conference—explored the evolving role…
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Explore the many ways grief is represented in art, archives, and personal expression. This blog post examines historical and contemporary depictions of mourning, from letters to lost loved ones to visual tributes like the AIDS Memorial Quilt, revealing how creative practices help us process loss.
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Accessible knowledge opens the door to education. In 2025, explore JSTOR’s open access collections, featuring art, photographs, and cultural archives that empower visual literacy and interdisciplinary discovery.
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Examples and case studies that show how Artstor on JSTOR can be used to enhance the teaching and learning of medicine and medical history.
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Artstor on JSTOR provides half a million useful images documenting architecture across the world, from ancient architecture to contemporary buildings. See how they might be used for teaching and research.
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Discover how Artstor’s images elevate literature education and explore two compelling case studies from a UC Irvine professor and a Philadelphia Museum of Art educator.
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This month on JSTOR, we continued expanding access to invaluable content, adding multimedia and archival collections that amplify voices from the past. Discover our picks from the month.
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In our webinar, explore tools, content, and strategies with Blair Woodard (Associate Professor of History and Environmental Studies, University of Portland) and Whitney Barlow Robles (Author, Historian, Curator, and Visiting Scholar, Department of History, Dartmouth College), and get practical tips on using images to enrich student learning.
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Explore the newly expanded Joseph F. Stapleton Drawing Collection from Artstor on JSTOR, now featuring 345 additional images. With nearly 650 images available, this collection offers a rich resource for research and study.
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Discover JSTOR’s latest resources, including radical newspapers, historical multimedia, and new video content. Enhance your research with diverse entries from Reveal Digital, Artstor on JSTOR, and shared collections.
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Discover how educators across various disciplines are creatively using Artstor on JSTOR to enrich their teaching. From ESL to Dance studies, explore 15 inspiring ways high-quality images and media are being integrated into lessons, helping students engage with visual resources in new and innovative ways.
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Contribute your institution’s digital collections to Artstor on JSTOR. Join a global network of cultural heritage partners dedicated to advancing access to knowledge and discovery.
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Discover how JSTOR supports teaching and learning with classroom-ready resources, diverse scholarly content, and digital tools that help you save time and deepen student engagement.
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