AHDS Visual Arts University College for the Creative Arts at Canterbury Epsom Farnham Maidstone and Rochester Falkner Road Farnham GU9 7DS Surrey England
Collection details
Architecture, Archives, Costume and Textiles, Decorative and Applied Art, Design, Film and Media, Fine Art, Performing Arts, Photography, Social History, Weapons and War
Description
AHDS Visual Arts is based at University College for the Creative Arts at Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham, Maidstone and Rochester. AHDS Visual Arts is one of five Subject Centres of the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS), and as such acts as The AHDS Centre for Visual Arts. AHDS Visual Arts is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). AHDS Visual Arts mission is to support research, learning and teaching, by providing visual arts digital resources through robust systems for Internet access and long term preservation; and to encourage, support and facilitate engagement with visual arts digital resources, through collaborative and creative endeavour, primarily within UK Higher and Further Education. AHDS Visual Arts provides Internet access and preservation of its collection of visual arts digital resources and advises in all areas of digital creation, use and management. AHDS Visual Arts services are freely available to UK Higher and Further Education sectors and AHDS Visual Arts seeks to work collaboratively within other sectors, both nationally and internationally.
Collections description
AHDS Visual Arts collections form a body of digital materials covering all subject areas of the visual arts, from textiles to architecture, including their practise, study and curation. AHDS Visual Arts collections also include a variety of digital formats, from text to 'virtual reality'. AHDS Visual Arts provides 'one-stop' Internet access to the collections and presents material through tailored interfaces for research, learning and teaching use. This eases the finding of resources for users and enables their wide and long-term dissemination for creators. AHDS Visual Arts delivery methods also increase the opportunity for interdisciplinary and multimedia-based activities. Collections are provided via the Internet in suitable web-delivery formats and preserved for the long-term in archival formats. Additionally, access and promotion of AHDS Visual Arts collections is broadened across the arts and humanities, through AHDS Visual Arts incorporation within the AHDS. Resources delivered by AHDS Visual Arts include: image databases from the African and Asian Visual Artists Archive; Basic Design Collection: Bretton Hall; Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design: Museum and Study Collection; Constance Howard Resource and Research Centre in Textiles: Material and Slide Collections; The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland; Crafts Study Centre: Surrey Institute of Art and Design; Design Council Archive: University of Brighton; Design magazine: 1965-1974, London College of Communication; Imperial War Museum, John Johnson Collection: Political Prints; London College of Fashion; National Arts Education Archive; National Fine Art Collection (fineart.ac.uk); Russian Visual Arts: Sheffield University student degree show web-sites and others including digital outputs from AHRB schemes and Computer Aided Learning packages.
General Education
Teaching/resources available for HE/FE students
