The Gospel Art Picture Kit is a great resource for family home evening lessons, primary talks and many other gospel teaching and scripture story telling moments. The online Gospel Art Picture Kit can be found in the Family Home Evening section of the Home & Family section of LDS.org. A hard copy of the kit can be purchased through the Church Distribution Center Web site, ldscatalog.com (the boxed Gospel Art Picture Kit is only $30). The boxed kit contained 160 pictures, and most of them are also available to view and print for free from the Web site. The Web site images.lds.org has a link to the Gospel Art Picture Kit as well as links to many other Church-related image libraries. You can also google “Gospel Art Picture Kit”; the first result is for the online kit and the second result is the link to purchase the actual kit.
Rebecca Lyn Casper, a project coordinator interning in the Church Audio/Visual department, recently did an analysis of the pictures in the online gospel art kit. She found that the New Testament pictures are the most popular, comprising 36% of the total views of gospel art pictures. The most popular of the all the pictures was “John the Baptist Baptizing Jesus” with over 23,000 page views during the year 2008. Below is a chart of the top 10 most popular pictures in the gospel art kit.
Though Larry Richman blogged about pictures on Church Web sites a couple of years ago, it was only recently that I learned that the Gospel Art Picture Kit was available online, and only today did I learn about images.lds.org. I wonder how many of you were aware of these resources? And if you have used them, what could we at the Church do to improve them? Your thoughts are appreciated.
| Most Popular Items in the Gospel Art Picture Kit in 2008 | |
| Picture Name | Page Views |
| 208 John the Baptist Baptizing Jesus | 23,670 |
| 240 Jesus the Christ | 22,638 |
| 239 The Resurrected Jesus Christ | 18,753 |
| 201 The Nativity | 16,543 |
| 227 Jesus Praying in Gethsemane | 16,323 |
| 403 The First Vision | 15,916 |
| 216 Christ and the Children | 13,502 |
| 238 The Second Coming | 12,973 |
| 608 Christ and Children from around the World | 12,192 |
| 212 Sermon on the Mount | 11,144 |
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About a year ago I was looking to decorate my apartment, and I really wanted to use church history photos to put in my frames. The problem I had was that I couldn’t find high resolution versions of the photos that were suitable for resizing and printing.
The copyright information says the images can’t be used on websites. Too bad for those that blog about the Church and want to illustrate their article.
What I think the Church could do better with these is be more clear about what users can and can’t do with these images. It’s hard for us average users to understand copyright laws and know how we can within artist’s rights further reuse these to enhance our personal messages.
I LOVE that the Gospel Art Kit is available online! I use it all the time for crafts and activities for my children. The site says that the pictures can be used for personal, non-commercial uses, so I have used them to make felt board pieces, LDS Lacing Cards, puzzles, etc. to compliment FHE lessons and for quiet activities in church.
I agree with Rick though, it’d be nice to be able to use them on a blog. It seems like there are a lot of LDS people with blogs now responding to Elder Ballard’s call in the July 2008Ensign, ,a href=”http://www.lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD&locale=0&sourceId=72443645a2cba110VgnVCM100000176f620a____&hideNav=1″ target=”_blank”>Sharing the Gospel Using the Internet.
I LOVE that the Gospel Art Kit is available online! I use it all the time for crafts and activities for my children. The site says that the pictures can be used for personal, non-commercial uses, so I have used them to make felt board pieces, LDS Lacing Cards, puzzles, etc. to compliment FHE lessons and for quiet activities in church.
I agree with Rick though, it’d be nice to be able to use them on a blog. It seems like there are a lot of LDS people with blogs now responding to Elder Ballard’s call in the July 2008 Ensign, Sharing the Gospel Using the Internet.
I agree with those above. What can we use the pictures for? I am the program coordinator for my ward and I would love a way to use the pictures in the program!
Me gusta Mucho la ImageN!
Perhaps the Church could organize the pictures according to the rights we have for them. This might make it easier for members to find pictures for blogging etc.
Hey I am teaching a lesson on FHE, and was wondering if anybody knew the statistics of the families that send children on missions and had temple marriages that had FHE weekly. Do you know if anyone could helpe me out with this? Please email me
Grantturley@gmail.com