Art Department and Slide Museum

Dana Barrow, Visual Resources Assistant (443-5546)

I’m working with Monica McCabe on the art history and studio art sites:

Monica McCabe, Academic Coordinator, History of Art/Studio Art (443-5234)

Websites I’m re-doing:

What we’d like to do:

Create a new graphic design that mixes art images and short blocks of text
Generate new content focused on the people and facilities in the art departments (example: faculty and student profiles), as well as informational content (example: courses and requirements, downloadable forms)
Create clear, new information architecture to organize our new content
Add photo galleries, video/audio clips, and social networking tools

Areas where I know I need help:

Creating video (example: short faculty and student interviews, images of student work, panoramic images of studio spaces)
Conceptualizing dynamic (i.e. effective, not necessarily flashy) was to present photo galleries
Conceptualizing dynamic navigation

Ideas from Shel Sax that we’d like to follow up on:

A proposal for a winter term class for video making next January (2010) so we can create high quality video clips
Creating a space on our site where students (HARC and SA) can create portfolios. (The model is teacher education.) This might be a good place to use social networking tools.
Fostering some kind of convergence with Segue (examples: portal with access to online exams, course websites, and student portfolios)

General list of things we’d like to do/have (in no particular order):

Information about people in the department

Short profiles of faculty, visiting architects, students, and alumni (I will create list of people.) Models are “My Midd Experience” and the short format of the bios in theater programs with accompanying photos. Could involve short questions for faculty such as, What is your most recent accomplishment?
An online magazine for a more in-depth look at who is studying abroad, faculty research and projects, student projects, etc. Model might be International Studies magazine (http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/ump/majors/is/)
A feature where HARC faculty talk briefly about their favorite works in college art museum
Place where we can link to external info about faculty and students (example: College alumni magazine will be doing a feature on John Hunisak and we would like to link to this

Images

Information

Info on courses and requirements (SA + HARC)
Info on planning your major, including study abroad (HARC – link this to student portfolios)
Downloadable forms (HARC – or make this part of student portfolios)
Put our department calendar online (HARC – maybe)
Special page on architecture and the environment (HARC)
Page about student work exhibitions (SA)
How-to info on VR site (could be in form of blog or wiki)

Technical Stuff

Support for Flash (studio art would like their site to be animated in some way, HARC doesn’t require this)
Ability for VR staff, academic coordinator, faculty, and students to add materials to various portions of the site
Ability to integrate images into site design (e.g. images of faculty and student art, images from museum collection)
A way to create student portfolios online (maybe use Segue)

Inspiring website we like:

Some of the pages on the Rhode Island School of Design website (http://www.risd.edu/undergraduate)
What we like about it: clear architecture, video, photo galleries, integration of art images into the design

History of Art and Architecture

Courses + Requirements

Faculty office hours

Students and alumni

Visiting the department

Resources (artstor, VR collection, museum)

Photos

Contact

Studio Art

Courses + Requirements

Faculty + Office Hours

News

Facilities

Study Abroad

Student Gallery

Visiting Artist Program

Contact

Sculpture in the form of a chair (photos)

Visual Resources Collection

Note: Made in CMS but links to pages made in another program

Collection Holdings

Stats on our facility and others’ facilities

Web Makeover Docs