Here at the National Museum of American Art one of our goals is to bring our collection of over 37,500 paintings, sculptures and objects into your home or school. We hope that this will serve as a catalyst and bring new visions and new voices to spark conversation and enliven the art as well as your life.
We here are constantly being exposed to others who are expanding the electronic frontier either through online journals or exhibitions or other art-related resources. We cannot possibly point to them all, but this page contains pointers to a some of them.
We hope that you will explore these pages as you have explored ours, but these links are not intended as an endorsement of any kind.
"Welcome to the Virtual Ceramics Exhibit, the first ever international juried exhibition of contemporary ceramics which exists solely on the Internet. We are proud to present this exhibition, and hope the viewer finds it both stimulating and thought provoking as it takes advantage of the new arena of cyberspace for showcasing both text and photos. As the information superhighway continues to expand into our daily lives and activities, it is becoming more challenging and exciting to find ways for artists to forge new ground and allow this technology to effect both how we make and view artwork. The Virtual Ceramics Exhibit is an attempt to bring together a wide array of ceramic art and artists via the Internet and, hopefully, illustrate new possibilities for the visual artist." [source - the home page of the Virtual Ceramics Exhibit, 9/20/95]
"Welcome to the Digital Daguerreian Archive Project home page. The goal of this project is to make available texts from the early days of photography in electronic form. The initial focus is on the Daguerreian period (1839-1860). The original documents are in the public domain as are the electronic versions of the texts. " [source - the home page of the Digital Daguerreian Archive Project, 9/21/95]
"The ArtMetal Project is a not-for-profit volunteer venture of a group of metalsmiths and organizations which aims to disseminate information about various aspects of artistic metalworking and to provide a forum for artists and art lovers to experience this outstanding medium. If you are interested in learning more about how to work with metal, visit our resource to metalworking. This resource includes information on materials, processes, finishes, and design." [source - the home page of the ArtMetal Project, 9/22/95]
The SDSU Ceramics Web - Glaze Art is an experimental website for ceramics. It includes a such things as database of glazes and materials, links to other ceramics web sites, health and safety information, and a variety of educational materials related to ceramics. The CeramicsWeb started life as the Ceramics Gopher, and probably some of the information you find here is actually still stored and retrieved from that site.
ClayArt listserv - CLAYART is a computer conference that serves as a means of communication for those interested in the ceramic arts. CLAYART is open to anyone wishing to participate, but will be particularly useful for those in ceramic-related areas of academia, private studios, galleries, etc.
GlazeBase - World glaze database project. The GlazeBase project seeks to build a database of useful ceramic glaze recipes and related information. This database will be made publicly available over the international computer networks via gopher and World Wide Web. Currently a small test database is running on the Ceramics Gopher at San Diego State University. Fully documented, working glaze recipes for all temperatures and types of ceramic ware are being actively solicited for the GlazeBase database.
The Norwest collection of Modernism serves as an interesting commentary on modern design in this country. That a collection of important works could be assembled in such a short period says more about design awareness in the United States than it does about collecting prowess. The decorative and applied arts have always been subordinated to the fine arts in American museums--David Ryan
Clay Arts House (TOUGEI-KAN)
Clay Arts House is a website devoted to Japanese clay art and artists. It keeps archives on Japanese pottery places and includes virtual ceramic galleries and a tea room. [source - the home page of the Clay Arts House 1/17/96]
