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Creativebug Check it Out (for free)
Creativebug
With Creativebug you'll enjoy unlimited access to over 1,000 online art and craft classes. Watch classes anytime, anywhere. Since classes never expire, you can start and stop projects at your own pace. No pressure, just possibilities! Library funded.

Fine Arts
Gale OneFile: Fine Arts
Places 10.4 million articles at the fingertips of students of drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. More than 250 journals covered in databases such as the Wilson Art Index and the Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) index are available in full text. Exclusive features, including Topic Finder, InterLink, and a mobile-optimized interface, support and enhance the search experience.

Boston Public Library Online Resources

You will need a Boston Public Library e-card to access these resources. All Massachusetts residents are able to sign up for a BPL e-card for free.
Art Full Text: Featuring full-text articles, indexing and abstracts from an array of sources, Art Full Text is a useful database for art students and art historians. It covers many topics from fine, decorative and commercial art to photography, film and architecture.
Art History Research net: Formerly known as Arts:Search, this resource includes: ReView (full text of arts and architecture journals), Arts+Architecture ProFiles (biographical data on over 40,000 artists, architects and designers), Design Abstracts Retrospective (abstracts of decorative, applied arts and design journals published between 1900-1986) and Research Sources: Posters (extensive information on the poster.)
Art Index Retrospective: This archival database features high-quality indexing of historical literature on a variety of art topics from the years 1929 to 1984. Chronicling over half a century of art literature, it covers fine, decorative, and commercial art. Art Index Retrospective contains hundreds of titles from feature articles, interviews, film reviews, book reviews, bibliographies, exhibition listings, conference reports, anthologies, and editorials. 
Grove Art Online: ​The foremost scholarly art encyclopedia, updated regularly and covering global art and architecture from prehistory to present day.

Other Online Resources

Archives of American Art: The world's preeminent resource dedicated to collecting and preserving the papers and primary records of the visual arts in America.
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timeline of Art History: A reference, research, and teaching tool conceived for students and scholars of art history. It is authored by The Met’s experts, and currently comprises more than 1,000 essays, close to 7,600 works of art, 300 chronologies, and 3,700 keywords. It is regularly updated and enriched to provide new scholarship and insights on the collection.
Pembroke Arts Festival: The official website of the Pembroke Arts Festival including resources for artists and volunteers.
Smarthistory: A free, not-for-profit resource for the study of art and cultural heritage. Their growing collection of videos and essays are designed to be engaging and conversational and cover art that ranges from the paleolithic to the present across Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania.
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