Please Note: In late September/early October many of our Omeka sites experienced disruption due to a server-wide maintenance update that rendered these sites obsolete. These sites are being rehabilitated, one by one, and it is hoped all will be restored to full-working order by end of December 2019. QG
In addition to the many projects that D.I.G. Fellows initiate and realize at Artinterp.Org, this site hosts scholarly projects in need of a digital home. Parceling out a “digital acre” is a way that we at Artinterp.Org feel we can develop and sustain an ecology of digitally-mediated scholarship in the arts and humanities. Below are projects that have benefited from this philosophy.
Hosted Projects
Art and Science in the Early Modern World: Sarah Cantor designed this ambitious website for a course on Art and Science in Early Modern Europe that she taught for the Department of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Maryland. Much of the material on the site is the result of student research and production.
Art Wars: The course website for an upper-level Art History course taught by Molly Harrington at UMBC in fall 2017 on the art of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation in Europe. Students used the exhibits to study images in and out of the classroom, and all lectures were based on the Neatline interactive map, which gives original locations of artworks and distinguishes between Protestant and Catholic patrons.
BERD (Built Environment Resource Directory for the Metropolitan DC Area): This directory is an in-depth mobile-based, geo-referenced resource for repositories and cultural institutions in the DC area that hold manuscript and image collections of research value on the built environment.
Claiming Their Space: Black Student Activism at the University of Maryland: Graduate students working with Quint Gregory in the Museum Studies and Material Culture museum research seminar developed this Omeka + Neatline site once the world went sideways during the emerging pandemic in spring 2020. Their work, their process, is quite inspiring.
Constellations: A combined curatorial and educational initiative, Constellations: Past, Present & Future Directions at the Art Museum of the Americas is an extension of the exhibition, Constellations: Constructivism, Internationalism, and the Inter-American Avant-Garde (AMA, 2012) that students, working with Professor Abigail McEwen, developed in 2012.
Esso Salons: From July 1964 to April 1965, the Esso (Standard Oil) Company and the Organization of American States (OAS), a hemispheric pact started during the cold war, sponsored a series of juried art competitions in Latin American countries, known as the Esso Salons for Young Artists. This site, which explores this fascinating historical moment through the pamphlets created for these salons, was created by Joanna Baker, a graduate student at Georgetown University, during a fall semester 2015 seminar in Modern Latin American Art with Professor Abigail McEwen at the University of Maryland.
Got Art?: Developed by Abby Eron as a sandbox effort to learn Omeka and Neatline, her mapping of present and historical art spaces at the University of Maryland is a handy resource for those looking to find art spaces and for those surveying how to make campus more art-friendly.
Race, Sexuality, and Gender in Early Modern Italian Art: Begun as a course website developed by Adam Rudolphi, this Omeka site explores the interrelationships between three categories of otherness, race, sexuality, and gender, in Early Modern Italian art, 1260-1675. Students have engaged in an intensive program of meta-data tagging, refined each time the course is taught again, to create more descriptive and precise ways of looking across the works on the site, now nearly 400 strong. Thematic galleries explore the chronological development of the themes across the period.
Ringgold | Saar: Meeting on the Matrix: Website for a spring 2023 exhibition of the same name at the David C. Driskell Center that was collaboratively curated by graduate students in the University of Maryland Department of Art History and Archaeology, including: Maura Callahan, Ashley Cope, Montia Daniels, Joohee Kim, Caroline Kipp, Cléa Massiani, Maggie Mastrandrea, Dominic Pearson, Gabrielle Robinson-Tillenburg, with support from Dr. Jordana Moore Saggese and the Driskell Center staff. Undergraduate intern Clare Daly developed the embryonic Omeka site, which was completed by Collaboratory graduate assistant Marco Polo Juarez Cruz and Quint Gregory, who developed the Neatline timeline.
Riversdale House: A site created to host content (videos, Neatline map) associated with the Collaboratory’s Spring 2016 augmented reality project working with the Riversdale House Museum for a temporary exhibition (April-October 2016), “Some of the Finest Paintings Ever in America.” This site will continue after the exhibition closes.
The Poet’s Brush: Lo Ch’ing: The Poetry of Postmodern Landscape showcases the multifaceted character of the artist’s engagement with the tradition of Chinese landscape painting. This online exhibition was curated in 2015 by Suzie Kim, Lindsay DuPertuis, and Raino Isto in association with the Department of Art History and Archaeology, University of Maryland, College Park, and the Michelle Smith Collaboratory for Visual Culture.
Visual Resources at ARCH: A website principally devoted to an online exhibition of the 50th anniversary of the School of Architecture, with information about Visual Resources in the School.
Women Artists from the Fine Arts Collection at St. Mary’s College of Maryland: An online catalogue organized and written by undergraduate students at St. Mary’s College of Maryland for the class A Studio of One’s Own: Women / Art / Collections. The catalogue highlights about two dozen works by women artists from the Fine Arts Collection at the College. All of the artworks were selected by the students who conducted research on each artist, composed individual entries, and collaborated on the introductory essay.