A.I.R. Gallery Online

A.I.R. Gallery Online
The A.I.R Gallery was founded in 1972 as the first artist-run, not-for-profit gallery for women artists in the US. It's mission is to advance the status of women artists.

1. selection decisions: They seem to have digitized any artist that has had a work of art in their gallery at one time or another. The list of artists is pretty long and is broken up into New York City Artists, National Artists, Gallery Alumnae. All of the artists are women.

2. metadata: The A.I.R site doesn't provide much of anything in the way of metadata but many of the works have links to the artist's homepage and there you can find the date and size of the artwork as well as other works by the artist.

3. You are allowed to zoom in to each picture but some of the zoomed in versions seem a little fuzzy. Maybe it's just my eyes. Also, you were allowed to zoom in really close for some works but not as close with others. I liked how on all of the pages there was a scrolling marque of works at the bottom. That was helpful if you were just happened upon the site and wanted to see what they had but you were not familiar with any of the artists. Also, I liked how they often provided the links to the artist homepage so you can further explore any one particular artist.

4. The intended audience is anyone who likes women artists or who has been to the gallery itself and would like to see works from past exhibits.