artsinform

Increasingly, the Library is becoming the Academic Town Square within the University environment, providing a physical place where ideas and issues from many different disciplines can be explored and presented, and where learning and intellectual curiosity can be celebrated.
The ArtsInform Show is an effort by the University of Guelph Library to reach out to local artists and encourage them to make use of the resources it offers both print and virtual.
To support this outreach the Library has launched ArtsInform, a unique web-based platform that helps artists explore vast catalogues and collections of fine art, decorative art, photography and architectural images from ancient to contemporary times.
The new website offers a global guide to museums and galleries, as well as access to numerous electronic resources including blogs and image banks containing hundreds of thousands of images. Among them are the California State University’s IMAGE project, and the Smithsonian Institution’s online collections and data sets with over 250,000 images. 
For more information about the project please visit the ArtsInform web site at. http://artsinform.guelphartists.ca/
The current exhibition will continue until the end of September.  We invite you to enjoy not only the works selected by our jury  but also the computer display of other works entered in the show. Space did not permit us to display them all.
Jurors:
Photographic artist Dawn Owen, assistant curator of Macdonald Stewart Art Centre
Artist and U of G Faculty of Art professor Martin Pearce
Renann Isaacs Guelph art consultant, curator and dealer
Show organizers: Associate librarians Pat Eaves-Brown and Judy Wanner. 
Contact: Pat Eaves" <pateaves@uoguelph.ca>