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San Antonio American Family Portraits is produced by produced by television station KLRN9 in San Antonio. Actor and art collector Cheech Marin speaks on aspects of Chicano Art in a 4-minute video.

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art web site contains an interactive online exhibit titled Robert Bechtle: A Retrospective. which contains movies. In one movie the artist describes how he paints motion and stillness and in another he discusses still life vs. landscape painting. In another movie, Ansel Adams describes how he photographed "Moonrise" in a 1980 video clip from the exhibit Ansel Adams at 100.

Seattle Community Colleges Television is an educational and community television service from the three Seattle community Colleges. Art Work is a rare visit to the human side of the art. Individual artists allow SCCTV cameras, and often an artist-host, in to their working studios while they're in the middle of building on an idea. ArtsLink features noted National Public Radio Arts Reporter, Marcie Sillman, who takes to the field and talks with the visionaries and workhorses that make the arts accessible. Issues of politics, education, limited funding, censorship; partnership and innovation are explored each month as we're taken inside the process of nurturing Seattle Arts.

The Seattle Channel features City A Go Go with five minute monthly programs designed to draw people out of their living rooms, into Pacific Northwest art venues. See Gretchen Batcheller in the December 2004 edition. Nancy Guppy interviews Seattle artist Anne Baumgartner's new show of paintings and collages at Cafe Lulu in the October 2004 edition. A Frye Art Museum photographic exhibit of 19th century American Landscape photographs is in the September 2004 edition. (Links found expired as of 8/12/09 audit. Source site may contain this content via a revised URL)

Recorded at the Sheldon, the Audio/Video Library enhances the understanding and enjoyment of visitors. Recordings include:

• John Singleton Copley's Nicholas Boylston - Aaron Holz, an assistant professor of painting, discusses John Singleton Copley's portrait of Nicholas Boyston, an early American masterpiece on loan from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Holz and Wendy Katz, an associate professor of Art History, will give a talk titled "It'll Cost You an Arm and a Leg" at Sheldon Sunday on February 24, 2008.
• Women Artists in Nebraska, 1880-1950 - Sheldon Curator Sharon Kennedy reviews her thesis about 12 early women artists in Nebraska. Talented, indomitable and yet largely overlooked, these art pioneers left an enduring artistic legacy in the state.
• Theodore H. Robinson's Port Ben, Delaware and Hudson Canal 1893 - Sheldon Director Jan Diresbach discusses Theodore H. Robinson's painting Port Ben, Delaware and Hudson Canal with Ashley Conaster, a senior Art History major. Their talk is about four-and-a-half minutes.
• Georgia O'Keeffe's New York, Night - Sheldon Director Jan Driesbach and Ashley Conaster, a graduate student in Art History, discuss Georgia O'Keeffe's painting, New York, Night, now on view in the Sheldon's permanent collection galleries. The videocast uses still and video images to show aspects and details of the painting. The videocast lasts about ten minutes and thirty seconds

The Signilar Video Collection offers instructional videos in VHS and DVD by master artists for art students. There are several videos by American artists in the series. Video clips of the presentations are available online.

Simmons College Institute for Leadership & Change partnered with the WGBH Forum Network for:

• Drawing Diversity with Jennifer Camper, (56 minutes) is a lecture by Jennifer Camper, comic artist and editor of the new comic anthology Juicy Mother, who brings contributing artists together to discuss comics as an expressive medium that is not representative enough in terms of diversity of perspectives. [June 2, 2005]

Paul Smith, afflicted with severe cerebral palsy, has created many art works through use of a typewriter over a span of seven decades. The Paul Smith Foundation web site offers six video clips from a segment that ABC produced about the artist in 1988 and broadcast on the program Incredible Sunday.

The Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) provides streaming media programming:

• Clarice Smith Distinguished Lectures in American Art presents a 81 min. video from the Clarice Smith Distinguished Lectures in American Art: David Driskell - An Introspective Art Account: Personal Entitlement October 10, 2007. Distinguished scholar and curator David Driskell is cited as one of the world's leading authorities on the subject of African American Art. He currently holds the title of Distinguished University Professor of Art, Emeritus, at the University of Maryland, College Park. Upon his retirement from the University of Maryland in 1998, The David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the African Diaspora was founded to promote his scholarship and service to the University. Driskell is the recipient of ten honorary doctoral degrees in art, and has authored numerous books, essays, and catalogues including Narratives of African American Art and Identity: The David C. Driskell Collection, published in 1998. In 1997, he received the National Humanities Medal from President Clinton. A highly regarded artist working in collage and mixed media, Driskell has exhibited his work in museums and galleries worldwide. Text courtesy Google Video
• Clarice Smith Distinguished Lectures in American Art presents David Park Curry, William Merritt Chase: A Little Fish Story, November 8, 2006. SAAM says: "David Park Curry is a distinguished curator and scholar of American art. He is the senior curator of decorative arts, American painting, and sculpture at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Over the course of his career, Curry has served as curator at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Denver Art Museum, and the Freer Gallery of Art. He has organized several award-winning exhibitions of James McNeill Whistler's work and is currently planning an exhibition on Theodore David and the Hayes presidential china. Curry has authored American Dreams: Paintings and Decorative Arts from the Warner Collection; Fabergé: The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; American Impressionism and Realism: The Painting of Modern Life, 1885-1915; Childe Hassam: An Island Garden Revisited; Winslow Homer: The Croquet Game; and most recently, James McNeill Whistler: Uneasy Pieces, which was released in November 2004."
• The virtual exhibition The White House Collection of American Crafts contains several streaming videos. The Introduction section features three videos with introductions by Dr. Elizabeth Braun, Director, SAAM, Hillary Rodham Clinton, First Lady, and Michael Monroe, Curator-in-Charge, Renwick Gallery. Mr. Monroe conducts a ten-part tour of the collection with both audio and video elements. Many objects in the collection are accompanied by audio clips.
• The Monotype Process (8-minutes) requires the Vivo plug-in.
• At the 2005 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, employees of the U.S. Forest Service demonstrated traditions of their communities. A Quicktime video shows Angie Bullets, a member of the Kaibab Band of Paiute, creating a cradleboard. (Link found expired as of 8/12/09 audit. Source site may contain this content via a revised URL) (8/12/09 advanced search failed to locate content on source's site)
• Smithsonian American Art Museum guest curator William Christenberry answers seven questions about his life and work posed by Web viewers. (Link found expired as of 8/12/09 audit. Source site may contain this content via a revised URL) (8/12/09 advanced search failed to locate content on source's site)
• The Lunder Conservation Center of the Smithsonian presents 22 video interviews of leading art conservators on their work including remarks by Dr. Joyce Hill Stoner on her Maxfield Parrish project.
• A Conversation with the Halffs. An Impressionist Sensibility: The Halff Collection (2006)

Until 2006 Smithsonian TV was a central index of multimedia content and a multimedia hosting service of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. Smithsonian TV was streaming programs on its web site until the service was discontinued.

The State Museum of Pennsylvania offers a guided exhibit tour of A Common Canvas or Pennsylvania's Heritage with editor Michael O'Malley's interview with curator David Lembeck. The exhibit runs November 23, 2008 through May 17, 2009: Videos include a Full Presentation (1:50:30 length), Preview (7:50 length), Just the Tour (1:31:07 length), Short Tour (20:00 length), and Just the Interview (18:01 length).

The Stillman-Lack Foundation presents two streaming RealMedia videos:

Ary Stillman: 58 Years of Painting, narrated by Frances Stillman, in which she discusses her husband's paintings as they are shown.This 55-minute video is produced and directed by Henry L. Thomas.

A Conversation, contains excerpts of a conversation Sid Lash held with Frances Stillman on Ary Stillman's paintings for KHOU-TV, Houston, TX., February 20, 1969. This 10-minute video is produced by Pearlman Productions, Houston,TX

Thanks to a team of conservators from the Straus Conservation Center at Harvard University, Edwin Austin Abbey's murals depicting the Holy Grail are becoming visible to Sir Galahad -- and to the many visitors to the Boston Public Library -- who will be able to enjoy the room's refurbished splendor. The Straus Center, which previously completed a restoration of the Library's celebrated John Singer Sargent murals, has been working alongside other contractors dedicated to returning the room to its original glory, from its gold-leaf ceilings to the rich oak paneling and extravagantly carved marble fireplace to the Italian marble floors.

• 2-minute video of the conservation effort.
• 3 1/2-minute video shows how fine art and cutting-edge science meet head-on at the Straus Center. (Link found expired as of 8/12/09 audit. Source site may contain this content via a revised URL)

TFAO catalogues:

• American Representational Art links to dozens of topics in American Representational Art
• Audio Online a catalogue of online streaming audio recordings
• Collections of Historic American Art notable private collections
• Distinguished Artists a national registry of historic artists
• Geographic Tour of American Representational Art History a catalogue of articles and essays that describe the evolution of American art from the inception of the United States to WWII.
• Illustrated Audio Online streaming online narrated slide shows
• Articles and Essays Online substantive texts published outside of Resource Library
• Videos Online a comprehensive catalogue of online full motion videos streamed free to viewers
• Videos an authoritative guide to videos in VHS and DVD format
• Books sampler of general reference books published on paper
• Interactive media media in CD-ROM format
• Magazines a comprehensive list of paper-published magazines and journals

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