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Most of the DAC website provides information about current or recent educational resources, exhibitions, and programs, but some pages address the museum's institutional past and future plans.
The Davison Art Center's name reflects the foundational role of George W. Davison (B.A. Wesleyan 1892), who donated the heart of Wesleyan University's print collection and enabled the creation of the DAC's current facility as an annex to the historic Alsop House. Aspects of the museum's more recent history may be seen in Web pages on past exhibitions since late 1995 and a list of exhibition catalogs still in print. Other historically oriented pages touch on such topics as the history of teaching at the museum.
Looking towards the future, our museum information projects use new technologies to leverage the traditional utility of the DAC Collection as a pedagogical resource. As a complement to teaching and learning directly from objects, online resources for education and research are based on actual objects at the Davison Art Center.
A navigable digital image of this Dürer engraving of 1513 (donated in 1949 by George Davison and frequently used for teaching) may now be examined at multiple resolutions on the DAC website in a beta version of a learning object that enables close study of the individual lines making up the composition. |
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