Art Guide

This guide gives an overview of SVC library resources related to art, art history, architecture, photography, and design.

Visual Arts

If visual arts is your passion, SVC provides many opportunities for you to explore your creative endeavors. Take your dream of the visual world and make it your own.

• Associate of Visual Arts, AVA
• Art Emphasis, Associate of Arts Direct Transfer Agreement, AA-DTA

Multimedia & Interactive Technology

There’s a commercial side to art, one where the artist primarily uses computers to create stunning, compelling visuals. If these digital media fascinate you, SVC can help you refine that interest and develop your skill.

• Multimedia, Web Developer, AAS-T
• Multimedia, Web Designer, AAS
• Adobe Certificate
• Digital Media Marketing Certificate
• Digital Video Certificate
• Game, App & Web Development Certificate
• Graphic Arts Certificate
• Multimedia Web Design Certificate

You can look into the SVC libraries website for ALL of our resources at once using OneSearch.

It's like Google for the library.

In the results, you will see not only items that are physically in the library like books and DVDs, but online ones as well, like eBooks, online articles, open access and peer-reviewed articles.

Try it down below:

Because you see so many results, OneSearch can be overwhelming so this may NOT be ideal as your first place to look.

You might try a database search instead. To access a database from SVC, please log in with your full SVC email address and password.

The following databases focus on art and related topics:

• Academic Search Complete
  • Features journals and magazines with a few newspapers. Like ProQuest there are full-text articles available for printing, copying, e-mailing, creating lists and with citation help.
• Gale In Context: College
  • Gale In Context: College is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on a wide array of subjects. Includes reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites.
• Gale Onefile: Fine Arts
  • Search millions of articles about drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. Resource for fine arts students. Log in with full SVC email address and password.
• JSTOR
  • Database of scholarly full-text journal articles featuring the Life Sciences and Arts & Sciences I collection. Also includes ArtSTOR's Art images. Log in with full SVC email address and password.
• New York Public Library Digital Collections
  • Items digitized from The New York Public Library's collections, featuring prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more. This source is a website.