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UI unveils Iowa Gallery digital art collections

Now you can stroll through the University of Iowa Museum of Art galleries from your desktop, browse works created by Iowa artists for the Daily Palette, or search through 40 years of graduate student art online, thanks to a new resource offered by UI Libraries.

This array of digitized artwork is now available through "The Iowa Gallery: Digitized Art Collections of the University of Iowa" at http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/gallery.

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 "The visual arts are one of humanity's basic means of understanding the world, and we are pleased to be able to share our collections of art from many centuries and many cultures with educators and students."

UI has inspired creativity and innovation in the arts for generations. Iowa was one of the first to accept creative work for graduate theses and to confer the Master of Fine Arts degree.

Much of the history of art at the university and its surrounding communities has been documented and digitized by the School of Art and Art History in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and by the UI Museum of Art.

The Iowa Gallery provides improved integrated access to these digitized collections and enhanced searchability for all of them.

Developed and maintained by the Digital Library Services department of UI Libraries, the Iowa Gallery is designed to support research and scholarship by students, faculty and staff.

"The Iowa Digital Gallery is a remarkable collaborative project that offers access to significant visual resources from the rich and diverse university collections," said Dorothy Johnson, director of the School of Art and Art History. "The Gallery provides a rapid and direct means of viewing individual works from the School of Art and Art History's extensive and unique collection of graduate student art, much of which is dispersed and exhibited throughout the campus. We are delighted that these outstanding works are now immediately accessible to a very wide audience."

Joni Kinsey, a UI professor of art history described her experience with the Iowa Gallery: "This fall I have used the Iowa Gallery digital collection for my class 'The Art Museum: Theory and Practice.' My students were able to view the Lee Collection of Etching Revival Prints on their own time and from their own computers. In class, we had wonderful discussions of the works, because the students were able to spend more time with the pieces. This is a terrific resource."

"The Libraries' staff is very excited about the opportunity to collaborate with members of the academic community on this project," said Nicole Saylor, head of Digital Library Services. "By combining their subject expertise with our expertise in information organization and technology, we can work together to create permanent, user-friendly digital collections that better serve scholars both here on campus and worldwide."

The Iowa Digital Library contains nearly 90,000 digital objects -- photographs, maps, sound recordings and documents -- from libraries and archives at UI and their partnering institutions.

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