Karen Kessel
Visual Resources Curator 
Art Room 107
(707) 664-2145
email: Karen.Kessel@sonoma.edu
The Art and Art History Department's Visual Resources Collection is in the process of being transformed from slides to digital images. In the future, with necessary funding and technical support, the collection will be accessible online. About 10% of the collection has been scanned and one third of the collection has been cataloged to date. This website provides general information about policies for accessing the collection, the content of the collection, links to art museums, and further resources available online for finding art images and information about cataloging and digital image standards. If you are interested in using the collection online and using and/or sharing digital images in the classroom, please contact the Visual Resources Specialist for further assistance, and fill out and send in the questionnaire below so we can keep you informed and strengthen the argument to develop a mechanism for centralized online access.
Students can earn units of credit for working as interns in the Visual Resources Collection for 3-9 hours per week if they are interested in learning more about library research, collections organization, and digital imaging skills and practices. This is an especially valuable experience for art history and studio majors and others with some art history coursework and digital image editing skills.
The Visual Resources Curator is a member of the Visual Resources Association, the professional organization for image specialists and providers that is working to establish national and international standards for image cataloging and reproduction quality. She has written a guide for developing collections of images of Native American art that will soon be available from the Visual Resources Association as VRA Special Bulletin #15. There is a link below to several websites about Native American art and culture.
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