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Trivium Art History is a platform for sharing the diverse stories of history’s great artists in a free, digital experience. Trivium focuses on accessible storytelling, exploratory design, and a breadth of content that expands beyond the canon of male, european artists to feature the women and artists of many cultures who have changed society through great art.

History
Trivium Art History was started in 2009 by artist and educator Rick Love, and experience designer and writer Reed Enger. Trivium began as a classroom presentation tool, and grew over the next 5 years to be an art history resource used in over 50 countries. In 2015, Rick and Reed relaunched Trivium on a new platform, optimizing the design for mobile users and adding new content types, including original writings by artists, pages for the collections where featured artworks can be found, and a library of recommended books on artists and art history. Today, Trivium collaborates with students to add new artworks and artists daily.

Site Features
Trivium’s goal is to provide an exploratory experience for people who are new to the world of art history. It’s content and design are intended to provoke curiosity, and balance academic rigor with memorable stories.
 * Artist Stories Trivium features short biographies of artists, intended to share a concise, interesting story about the artist. Biographies are factual, but written in an editorial voice and introduced with provocative headlines. Artist pages are laid out in two columns, designed to allow reading and viewing artwork simultaneously.
 * Artist Writings Trivium hosts original writings by artists, including letters, manifestos and autobiographies. These writings are from both digital and print sources, including rare works never before available online.
 * Artworks Trivium hosts high-resolution images of artwork, and offers a zoom tool on both desktop and mobile experience. Artworks are tagged and viewable by subject, collection and medium.
 * Collections Trivium showcases artworks viewable in over 200 collections worldwide. A collection map allows visitors to find collections and see works near them.

Community
Since August 2015, Trivium has encouraged user submission to it's artwork library. Partnering with classes at Northwestern University, Trivium has accepted submissions of over 1000 historical artworks by students. Each submitted artwork is fact-checked by editors, updated and posted to the site. Additionally, writers and artists are invited to submit long-form articles and essays on art history topics. As a self-described 'cathedral to human creativity' the Trivium team is looking for ongoing partnerships with content creators and the media.