About GLAM

In 2016, The Andrew Mellon Foundation awarded the Atlanta University Center (AUC) Robert W. Woodruff Library a three-year grant to establish the AUC Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) Center for Collaborative Teaching & Learning. The AUC GLAM Center – consisting of the AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library and Archives Research Center, the Clark Atlanta University Art Museum, and the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art –  provides faculty training in object-based learning pedagogy as well as digital access to the culturally rich holdings of the AUC GLAM institutions’ collections.

The AUC GLAM Center — consisting of the AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library and Archives Research Center, the Clark Atlanta University Art Museum, and the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art — provides faculty training in object-based learning pedagogy as well as digital access to the culturally rich holdings of the AUC GLAM institutions’ collections.

The AUC GLAM Center is dedicated to fostering continuous collaborations between the AUC’s cultural institutions to stimulate teaching and learning across multiple disciplines through increased discoverability and scholarship of library, archival and museum collections.

Educational Resources

The AUC GLAM Center Develops teaching and learning methods that promote in-depth faculty and student engagement with artworks, artifacts, and other primary source materials from the AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library, Clark Atlanta University Art Museum, Spelman Museum of Fine Art, and the AUC Archives Research Center.

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Explore a curated selection of artwork from the AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library, Clark Atlanta University Art Museum, and Spelman College Museum of Fine Art collections.
AUC GLAM Institutions
The AUC GLAM Center develops cross-disciplinary teaching and learning methods that promote in-depth faculty and student engagement with archival material and artworks from the Atlanta University Center’s Robert W. Woodruff Library, Archives Research Center, Clark Atlanta University Art Museum, and Spelman Museum of Fine Art collections.