Open Educational Resources Guide: Arts OER

Arts OER

Open Textbooks

Open Courses and Courseware

Arts courseware - Merlot
A wide variety of open course materials on topics including: architecture, art history, ceramics, cinema, dance, drawing, fiber, graphic design, metal, music, photography, theater, and more.
History of Art - Roman Architecture - Open Yale Courses
"This course is an introduction to the great buildings and engineering marvels of Rome and its empire, with an emphasis on urban planning and individual monuments and their decoration, including mural painting."

Open Images

Open Images research guide
Created by UWB/CC Librarian Laura Dimmit Smyth.
Creative Commons
Search engine for Creative Commons licensed images and media.
Flickr CC Collection
Images provided by Flickr that carry a Creative Commons license.
Getty Search Gateway
Open content from across Getty's collections.
Library of Congress: Free to Use and Reuse Sets
Digital images from the Library of Congress that are within the public domain, have no known copyright, or have been cleared by the copyright owner for public use.

Open Video & Audio

ccMixer
Remixes and samples for creating your own remixes licensed by Creative Commons.
Jamendo Creative Commons Search
The largest catalog of music under Creative Commons license with more than 25,000 albums. Includes rock, pop, jazz, hip-hop and dance tracks.
Vimeo: Creative Commons Collection
Millions of videos licensed with Creative Commons.

Arts OER Textbook Examples

Moving Pictures: An Introduction to Cinema by Russell Sharman
"A free and open-source introduction to the art and science of moving pictures, offering in-depth exploration of how cinema communicates, and what, exactly, it is trying to say." CC BY-NC-SA
Seeing Race Before Race: Visual Culture and the Racial Matrix in the Premodern World by Noémie Ndiaye and Lia Markey, eds.
"This volume uses items from the Fall 2023 exhibition “Seeing Race Before Race”— a collaboration between RaceB4Race® and the Newberry Library — as a starting point for an ambitious theoretical conversation between premodern race studies, art history, performance studies, book history, and critical race theory." CC BY-NC-ND
A Quick and Dirty Guide to Art, Music, and Culture by Clayton Funk
CC-BY
The Art of Music with an Equity Lens by Jennnifer Bill and Amy McGlothlin
The text "is a music appreciation textbook that features musical examples and photographs that represent the demographics of our students today. Special attention has been paid in choosing to represent women and minorities. World Music photographs and videos represent the music's areas of origin." CC BY-NC-SA
Introduction to Art: Design, Context, and Meaning by Pamela Sachant and Peggy Blood
Offers a comprehensive introduction to the world of Art. CC BY-SA
Decolonial Ecologies: The Reinvention of Natural History in Latin American Art by Joanna Page
"In Decolonial Ecologies: The Reinvention of Natural History in Latin American Art, Joanna Page illuminates the ways in which contemporary artists in Latin America are reinventing historical methods of collecting, organizing, and displaying nature in order to develop new aesthetic and political perspectives on the past and the present." CC BY-NC-ND