Research Guides: Open Educational Resources Subject Guide: Art & Art History

Course Materials

OER Commons
OER Commons provides a curated collection of Art History, Graphic Arts, Performing Arts, and Visual Arts.
MERLOT II - Arts
History & The Arts (Open Learn)
Open Learn is an initiative of The Open University, UK. It provides supplemental materials for educators, including articles, podcasts, videos, games, and much more. In addition, it offers more than 700 free online classes.
Art History Teaching Resources
SmartHistory
Smarthistory is a multimedia art history website, which seeks to educate users about art in innovative ways not usually allowed by traditional textbooks. It brings together content from museums and other cultural sites to engage students in conversations about how to interpret and understand the works presented. The work is licensed as Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Metropolitan Museum of Art
Over 200,000 images of artwork in the public domain
National Gallery of Art
Over 45,000 open access digital images
Rijks Museum
Offers hundreds of thousands of downloadable public domain images
accessCeramics
A growing collection of contemporary ceramics images by recognized artists. Images are available with different creative commons licenses.

Boundless Art History
From Lumen Learning. Online open textbook covering prehistoric to 20th century art across the world.
Art 100: Art Appreciation
From Open Course Library