Building Visual Literacy Skills on Campus

Abstract

Many colleges possess rich art collections that have the potential to expand curricula and address visual literacy in dynamic ways. However, faculty outside studio and art history departments often shy away from integrating art into their teaching. To build visual literacy skills using the campus art collection, a multidisciplinary team created a series of lesson plans for an open web-based toolkit using ACRL’s Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. This article shares recommendations for others seeking to develop similar multidisciplinary collections-based teaching programs.