Visual Resources Library
The Visual Resources Library (VRL) is an encyclopedic teaching collection of more than 250,000 digital images and slides, with extensive concentrations in pre-Colombian, photography, medieval, and contemporary art images. The collection is constantly expanding – during the summer of 2007, 10,000 images will be scanned and added to the digital collection. By the fall of 2007, our state-of-the-arts online database will be fully accessible to School of Art faculty and students.
The VRL is also the primary source for supplying AV equipment and technical support to faculty and students for classroom presentations. Digital projectors, slide and video projectors, DVD and VCR players, and laptops are in inventory, and a limited number of workstations are available within the library for student use.
The library is conveniently located within the Fine Arts Building, and is open M-F, 8:00a.m.–5:00p.m.
- Merriann Bidgood, Curator
mbidgood@uh.edu
713.743.2825 - Alison Zaragoza, Curatorial Assistant
- Visit the Visual Resources Library web site »
Printmaking Studios
We have two superb printmaking studios for innovative and experimental investigation with traditional and non-traditional methods and media in intaglio, lithography, relief, and silkscreen. Materials and equipment are available for etching, aquatint, and photopolymer intaglio techniques; stone, plate, polyester plate, and positive-printing photo-plate lithography; linocut, woodcut, and photopolymer relief techniques; oil and water-based monoprint and monotype; and traditional and photographic silkscreen applications. The printmaking facilities also include materials and a growing array of equipment for the book arts.
Undergraduate studio classes include printmaking fundamentals with intermediate/advanced classes offered in intaglio, lithography, photo-based printmaking, relief printmaking, monoprint and monotype, and book arts. The Graduate Printmaking Studio supports personal, self-directed investigation into print media.
Faculty:
- Cathy Hunt, Instructional Assistant Professor
- Eric Pearce, Affiliate Artist