ART 590
The Project , Texts, Course Work, The 
Hulmer Website, Important Links, Student Pages, HTML Resources
This "group' independent study is organized for the purpose of transforming the Hulmer Collection of Russian Icons into a website. Much of this project is underwritten by a grant from the Culpeper Foundation, that approved our request for money not only because the project itself is so interesting, but even more because it will involve students and faculty together learning through innovative technologies.
The Russian religious artworks that will be featured in this web site are from the Allegheny College Collection, donated from the Estate of Eric C. Hulmer, a business man from the Pittsburgh area. Although not formally affiliated with Allegheny College during his lifetime, his generous bequest was made to the College so that his collection might be shared with an appreciative audience. The religious work was featured in an exhibition entitled: Russian Icons: Humanity Transfigured, held in the Megahan Gallery, Allegheny College, March 8-April 6, 1994. The work done in preparation for that show will be the foundation of this website. Making this work visible on the internet is an appropriate fulfillment of Hulmer's desire to make his collection known.
Documents concerning this class will be available on the Allegheny College network, under the Art 590 class folder: See Atlas/Public1/Educational/Art /Art590(HulmerProject) /ACarrS97 , including the syllabus. After six or seven preliminary group sessions in which the group becomes acquainted with various aspects of the project, work on designing the website will proceed on an independent basis. Specific assignments are discussed in greater detail below.
For more information, E-Mail Professor Amelia Carr 
- Elizabeth Castro, Basic HTML for the World Wide Web, Peachpit Press, 1996.
- The hardcopy version of this text is available in the bookstore. Her examples can be seen on the net.
- Howard Besser and Jennifer Trant, Introduction to Imaging. Issues in Constructing an Image Database, The Getty Art History Information Program, 1995.
- This text is online as part of the massive Getty Information Institute project. A paperback text version of the book can be purchased in the bookstore.
- Assignment One Posted January 17, 1997
- To bring you up to speed on NetSurfing. Focus on browser features, URL's, searching, citing, and downloading.
- Assignment Two Posted January 29, 1997
- A list of Good Sites and Bad Sites put together by the class.
- Assignment Three Posted February 3, 1997
- Easy Access vs. Fair Use
- Assignment Four Posted February 27, 1997.
- At last we begin working in our own computer lab, with Adobe Photoshop.
- Assignment Five Posted March 2, 1996.
- Basic information and terms concerning Scanning, Color, and JPEG vs. GIFS.
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The Hulmer Collection of Russian Religious Art
After a semester's worth of work, we provide a link to the site itself. We consider the project to be in draft form, so your comments very much welcome!
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- Rules for use of the computer lab. Please note that you are not permitted to work with equipment or software on which you have not received instruction!
- Schulman, LeWinter and Emmanuelides, Photoshop Web Magic , Hayden Books, 1996 contains detailed instructions on how to use Photoshop 4.0 to create buttons, borders and bows for the web page. Examples below. Well, okay, I guess they're somewhat LARGE, but I'm still learning!
- Press these fabulous bevelled buttons for the RULES for using the
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- Luke Boger provided the information for this page on Watermarking and Fingerprinting technologies. Some of these represent viable options, so have a look.
Students in the class have put together the following practice pages. Most stopped working on these early in the term as we got busy with our icons, but these can give you an idea of the wide range of personal creativity!
- Ben Allison Happiness and caring? Or is he being ironic???
- Brian Ayer Including the complete Drew Barrymore collection.
- Luke Boger Movies, TOOL, ..it's a Test Page!
- Jason Brock He says it's hazardous, but after viewing it, I'm still feeling @#x++x..DT#% absolutely fine.
- Whitney Burke Museums, museums, museums! Good links to modern art sites.
- Justin Leous Justin lost his page in cyberspace and was too depressed to reproduce it. Lesson to be learned? BACK IT UP!
- Kristin Magee Shopping! A nice set of links to commercial venues, always changing.
- Ryan Wilcox Ryan's page has links he thinks will be useful sources for students in this class. In a second site he's experimenting with frame programming, but the link isn't really working.
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HTML Resources
- We will be learning HTML with the help of Helen McCullough, Allegheny College Media Specialist.
- Look for more of her suggestions on her HTML Information page.
- NCSA - a beginner's guide
- One of the most basic HTML guides, put together by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. This is the one recommended by the Allegheny College computing staff.
- HTML validation services are useful for making sure your code complies everywhere.
- WebTech Validation Service Checks your page for bad HTML code.
- Dr. Watson Checks your page for bad code, style AND spelling errors.
- Web folks are committed to publishing their reference works on the web.
- Check out my additional resources page for more sites, including some of my favorites.
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This page is part of a course still in progress, although it officially ended May, 1997. Last updated May 27, 1997.
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