PLAN Quick Class Webinar (Live): Google Arts & Culture 101 with Sarah Burris

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Date/Time
Date(s) - 08/22/2019
10:00 am CDT - 10:30 am CDT

Painting entitled Roaming in a Baroque Library — Kyung Min Nam (2008); from the collection of the Korean Art Museum Association

Have you ever wanted to be close enough to a Rembrandt that you could see the individual brush strokes? Or travel to museums across the world without leaving your desk? Let’s explore the Google Arts and Culture online platform!

Several renowned art museums have provided open access to their high-resolution artworks that fall in the public domain with the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license. We will also learn how to download these images for free.

Sarah Burris is the Community Relations and Marketing Coordinator for the Northwest Regional Library System. She received her Master of Library and Information Science degree with a specialization in Museum Studies in 2013 and her Master of Fine Arts degree in 2008 from Kent State University (Kent, OH). She previously managed The Artist & The Librarian blog and enjoys sharing art resources with others.

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Skill Level: Introduction & Beyond Basic

Registration is closed for this event.

For FY2020-21, 83% of the total costs for the PLAN Continuing Education program ($220,000) is supported by federal money and 17% of this program ($44,000) is supported by local money. The total budget of the project is $264,000.