Moffat Library Databases: Art
Family Fun Pass
- Family Fun Pass at Moffat LibraryThe Moffat Library circulates a family pass to selected local arts organizations including Boscobel House and Gardens, the Museum at Bethel Woods, the Museum of the City of New York and Storm King Arts Center.
Local Arts Organizations and Ensembles

The Orange County Arts Council is dedicated to meeting the growing need for local arts advocacy and serving as a county-wide arts resource.

Arts Mid-Hudson is the preeminent nonprofit arts service organization serving Dutchess, Ulster, and Orange counties. Through advocacy, exhibitions, performances, folk arts programs, festivals, awards and more, it celebrates the region's bounty of art, inspires creativity, and transforms communities.

A group of artists from the Washingtonville, New York, area who meet monthly for critique, mutual support, and to promote art in the local community.

Serving the Hudson Valley with world-class musical performances, the HVP Symphony Concert Series performances can be enjoyed in an elegant setting with outstanding acoustics at both the Bardavon and the Ulster Performing Arts Center.

Provides a place where people from all backgrounds can come together and hear a high quality orchestra made up of members from their own neighborhoods and promotes a broader understanding of different cultures and histories through the exploration of orchestral master works, both old and new.
Books From The Collection
Basquiat by
Call Number: 759.13 BASPublication Date: 2015-10-29Biography of Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988), the 80s art star who put poverty, power, and racism on the wall. A cult figure of artistic social commentary, and a trailblazer in the mediation of graffiti and gallery art.History of African-American Artists by
Call Number: 759.13 BEAPublication Date: 1993-10-26A landmark work of art history: A History of African-American Artists -- conceived, researched, and written by the great American artist Romare Bearden with journalist Harry Henderson, gives a conspectus of African-American art from the late eighteenth century to the present.How to Paint by
Call Number: 751.4 GAIPublication Date: 2005-05-28Comprehensive step-by-step guide provides basic information on materials and techniques as well as an exciting series of demonstrations aimed at complete beginners.The Hudson River School by
Call Number: 758.1 FERPublication Date: 2009-10-06In the mid-1800s, a group of painters based in New York turned their focus to the theme of the natural landscape to demonstrate the beauty of the wilderness.IPhoneography by
Publication Date: 2015-12-22This book introduces you to professional photography and composition principles, tricks and techniques of iphoneography, photosharing, and more. Do you have a smartphone with you right now? If you do, along with this book, you've got everything you need to make amazing photography.The Vatican by
Publication Date: 2013-11-12Every Old Master painting on display in the Vatican, as well as hundreds of additional masterpieces and treasures in the papal collection, is included in this deluxe volume with companion DVD.Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink by
Publication Date: 2015-10-13This memoir, written entirely by Costello, offers his unique view of his unlikely and sometimes comical rise to international success, with diversions through the previously undocumented emotional foundations of some of his best-known songs and the hits of tomorrow.How to DJ Right by
Publication Date: 2003-06-27How to DJ is the perfect guide -- from the most basic keys to establishing a music collection and a distinctive sound, to elementary record-spinning, to the complex skills of scratching, hot-mixing, and beat-juggling, as well as the inimitable art of creating an evening of sound that is perfectly timed, balanced, and unforgettable.Taylor Swift - Reputation by
Publication Date: 2018-01-01(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). Taylor's 2017 album release continues her chart-topping success, led by the previously released singles "Look What You Made Me Do" and "...Ready for It." Our songbook features these 2 songs plus 13 more arranged for piano and voice with guitar chord frames:Hamilton by
Publication Date: 2016-04-12Hamilton, the musical, is as revolutionary as its subject, the poor kid from the Caribbean who fought the British, defended the Constitution, and helped to found the United States. HAMILTON: THE REVOLUTION gives readers an unprecedented view of both revolutions.
Library Databases
- Articles, images, websites on visual art, music, film and theater pulled from the Enycyclopedia Britannica, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, many magazines and periodicals.
- Open access scholarly journal articles that include subjects Arts in General and Fine Arts.
- Explore digital images of arts collections from local archives, historical societies, museums and cultural organizations.
- Database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources with information on the history of art, history of music and songwriting.
- Explore articles published prior to 1923 in the subjects of architecture, art, garden and landscape studies, music, performing arts and film studies.