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Reference Images and Videos Featured in the 81st Street Studio

CLAY

Preparing clay (2)
Stock media provided by garrydan / Pond5

Red and yellow clay (background)
Lena Philip / Bigstock.com

Leirhnjukur (Clay Hill) rhyolite formation with hot sulfuric springs at Krafla volcanic area in Mývatn region, Northeastern Iceland
Dmitry Naumov / Alamy Stock Photo

Madagascar, Analamanga region, clay brick production on the riverbank near Antananarivo
Ruth Hofshi / PhotoStock-Israel / Alamy Stock Photo

Scanning electron microscope images (200×) of the deferrified clay fraction of the Xanthic Acrustox (soil 9) before (left) and after (right) the spray drying treatment. Alves, Marcelo, Y. P. Mascarenhas, D.H. French, and C. P. M. Vaz. “Rietveld-based mineralogical quantitation of deferrified oxisol clays.” Australian Journal of Soil Research 45 (2007): 224–32.

#MetKids—How to Make a Clay Pot: Coil and Pinch
Series producer, editor in chief: Emily Suter; associate producer: Skyla Choi; twelve-month intern: Emily Sun; design and development: CHIPS; application development: Kevin Decantrel and Danielle E. Lee; illustration: John Kerschbaum.
© 2016 The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies

AFPR—Meet The Artists: Chuma Maweni
Managing producer: Kate Farrell; producer: Melissa Bell; editor: Lela Jenkins; graphic design: Abby Chen; music: Austin Fisher; photographs: Paul Lachenauer. Video courtesy of Southern Guild.
© 2022 The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Master potter working with clay
Julia /Adobe Stock

Potter puts a clay pot in a kiln
Stock media provided by azhorov / Pond5

Close-up of ancient buried pottery as archaeologists gently clean the dirt
Stock media provided by BlackBoxGuild / Pond5

Village women at shoreline collecting clay to make pottery, Myanmar
Alice Musbach / Alamy Stock Photo

Extreme close-up of clay sediment with particles smaller than 0.002mm
Produced by Met Design. © 2023 The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The source of this material is the COMET® Website at http://meted.ucar.edu/ of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), sponsored in part through cooperative agreement(s) with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC). © 1997–2023 University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. All Rights Reserved.


METAL

Silver ore from silver mines
bambambu / Shutterstock

Mercury
SPL Motion / Science Source

Jaspilite banded iron formation, Soudan Underground State Park
James St. John licensed under CC BY 2.0

Tungurahua Volcano eruption
Fotos593 / Shutterstock.com

Gold panning
Stefan Jannides / redbrickstock.com / Alamy Stock Photo

Lighting bulb
Stock media provided by Adrohache / Pond5

Brown snail without shell
ff25 / Alamy Stock Photo

Workers pouring liquid molten metal
Stock media provided by Andrii_Shramko / Pond5

Close-up of handmade metal embossed tag being made
PennyLens / iStock

Industrial worker welding
SasinTipchai / Shutterstock

Powerful fiery blow of blacksmith with hammer on metal
Stock media provided by GOR_product / Pond5

Buses on Madison Avenue, Manhattan, New York
Jon Arnold / Agency Jon Arnold Images / agefotostock

Metalworking at Tiffany & Co.: Mokume-gane | Materials and Techniques
Director: Rebecca Rau; producer: Melissa Bell; director of photography: Joshua Kun; graphic design: Mortimer Lebigre; mokume-gane artist: Wendy Yothers; consultants: Medill Higgins Harvey and Moira Gallagher; special thanks to: Fashion Institute of Technology Department of Jewelry Design.
© 2021 The Metropolitan Museum of Art

#MetKids—Art Under X-Ray: What’s Inside the Art?
Head of Digital Content: Sofie Andersen; executive producer: Sarah Wambold; director/writer/producer: Benjamin Korman; animation direction: Lisa LaBracio; art direction: Lisa LaBracio; design and illustration: Tara Sunil Thomas; animation: Sara Zarul Azham and Lisa LaBracio; Experiment photography: Mia Nacamulli; production coordinators: Lela Jenkins and Emma Masdeu-Perez; narrators: Corin Wells and Debbie Schorsch; education consultants: Emily Blumenthal, Darcy-Tell Morales, and Julie Marie Seibert; episode consultants: Debbie Schorsch, Isabel Stuenkel, and Marco Leona; original music: Austin Fisher; sound mix: Dave Raymond; additional photography: Peter Berson; special thanks to Téo Nacamulli Tabet.
© 2021 The Metropolitan Museum of Art


WOOD

Looking up a General Sherman tree
Stock media provided by videowokbiz / Pond5

Forest trail scene with woodland path
TSN52 / Shutterstock

Log pile
Krasula / Shutterstock

Acacia tree in Ras Muhammed National Park, Egypt
UnderTheSea / Shutterstock

Bamboo forest
Stock media provided by silverjohn / Pond5

Tree rings on a cut log in a conifer forest
Nicola Ferrari RF / Alamy Stock Photo

Vascular tissue of mature pine (Pinus spec.)
blickwinkel / fotototo /Alamy Stock Photo

Craftsman carving with a gouge
CarlosAndreSantos / iStock

Simon Nowep, Kambot wood painting
Video by Dr. Daniel von Rüdiger © Dr. Daniel von Rüdiger

Muffins
grandriveriStock

Carpenter cutting wood with a handsaw in a carpentry shop
Narint Asawaphisith / Shutterstock

Green Elf Cup fungi, Chlorociboria aeruginascens, growing on rotten wood
www.pqpictures.co.uk / Alamy Stock Photo

Boy inlays wooden tabletop, Khan el-Khalili Bazaar, Cairo, Egypt, 1977
Doug Jones / Shutterstock


PRINTS

Woodcut
Featured artwork: Liz Zanis (American, born 1980). Big Rocks, 2018. Woodcut and woodblock. Courtesy of the artist.
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art

How was it made? Block printing William Morris Wallpaper | V&A
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London


DRUMS

Dominican Republic percussionist Bralen Robles performs tambora solo with El Prodigio band
Video courtesy of congahead

Sonic Cloisters: Jlin | MetLiveArts
© 2021 The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Khol Improvisation, performed by Samir Chatterjee. Filmed in the gallery for the art of Mughal South Asia and Later South Asia at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 13, 2013. A production of the Digital Media Department, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Produced and directed by Christopher Noey; edited by Kate Farrell; camera by Kelly Richardson and Jessica Glass; lighting by Ned Hallick; sound recording and post-production audio by David Raymond; production coordinator: Stephanie Wuertz; production assistants: Sarah Cowan, Kate Farrell, and Maureen Coyle. Organized by the Department of Musical Instruments: J. Kenneth Moore, Frederick P. Rose curator-in-charge; Jayson Kerr Dobney, Associate Curator and Administrator; Bradley Strauchen-Scherer, Associate Curator; P. Allen Roda, Research Fellow; Susana Caldeira, Assistant Conservator; Joseph Peknik III, Principal Technician; Pamela Summey, Programs Coordinator; Marian Eines, Associate for Administration
© 2013 The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Silver Lining, written and performed by Glen Velez on the the Bodhran. Filmed in The Koç Family Galleries featuring Carpets, Textiles, and the Greater Ottoman World and Arts of the Ottoman Court (14th–20th centuries), on August 1, 2018. Production support was provided by The Augustine Foundation. Director: Kate Farrell; producer: Melissa Bell; editor: Alex Guns; camera: Alex Guns and Kelly Richardson; lighting: Ned Hallick; gaffer: Christopher Yurnet; sound recording and post-production audio: David Raymond; production coordinator: Kaelan Burkett; production assistants: Stephanie Wuertz and Sarah Cowan. Organized by the Department of Musical Instruments: Jayson Kerr Dobney, Frederick P. Rose Curator-in-Charge; Bradley Strauchen-Scherer, Associate Curator; J. Kenneth Moore, Curator Emeritus; Tim Caster, Principal Technician; Pamela Summey, Programs Coordinator
© 2018 The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Medieval Sculpture Hall (Gallery 305)
Photograph by Mark Morosse © 2011 The Metropolitan Museum of Art


SUBTLE MAGIC: RAMBLE

NASA’s Webb Reveals Cosmic Cliffs, Glittering Landscape of Star Birth
NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI

Southern Ring Nebula (NIRCam image)
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, and the Webb ERO Production Team

Dispersion of white light to colors in the prism
grayjay / Shutterstock

Optical glass pyramid with visible spectrum wave rays
alexlmx / Adobe Stock

Cube light rainbow refraction prism
Stock media provided by SteadyRux / Pond5

Three primary colors of light mixing (animation)
Stock media provided by yuruphoto / Pond5

Macro shot of a soap bubble
forrestbrown / Adobe Stock

Single white light beam expands via prism to form laser light show
Stock media provided by bobbigmac / Pond5

Ultraviolet neon wave glowing laser curves flowing in reflective room
Stock media provided by IncrediVFX / Pond5

Northern lights in Norway, Canada, Finland, Iceland, and Sweden (animation)
Bruno TornielliiStock

Timelapse of bioluminescent glow worms in cave, New Zealand
FreemanfootageiStock

Bioluminescent phytoplankton illuminating the ocean along the coast at the Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve, near Cape Town, South Africa
Eric Nathan / Alamy Stock Photo

Warty comb jellyfish
LPETTETiStock

Light pillars timelapse
nikwaller / Adobe Stock

Refraction of light through a glass
Stock media provided by Dyomin / Pond5

Purple and Blue rays of light refraction
Stock media provided by Yellow_Fabia / Pond5

Water surface
Stock media provided by KleinerMann82 / Pond5

Double rainbow formed in spray Gullfoss, Iceland
Stock media provided by Chrispo / Pond5

Nalini Malani dOCUMENTA 13; In Search of Vanished Blood, 2012
© Nalini Malani. Courtesy Galerie Lelong & Co.


SUBTLE MAGIC: GARAGE

Musical Automaton Clock with Spinet and Organ
Featured artwork: Musical Automaton Clock with Spinet and Organ, ca. 1625. Veit Langenbucher (1587–1631) and Samuel Bidermann and Son (1540–1622). German, Augsburg. Silver, brass, iron, gilding, ebony, hardwood, parchment, leather, textile, paint. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Clara Mertens Bequest, in memory of André Mertens, 2002 (2002.323a–f)
© 2019 The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Behind the Scenes: The Working Side of the Museum, 1928 | From the Vaults
© 2019 The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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