| Link |
Description |
| 4Kids.org |
Art and Music activities |
| Art & Learning to Think & Feel |
Marvin Bartels' Art Education Page: "Dedicated to Leaving No Mind Behind" |
| Art and Music Interactive Sites |
Utah Teachers' Favorite links |
| Met's Interactives for Kids |
Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| Art Education 2.0 |
A website for networking--Using New Technology in Art Classrooms. |
| Art of the Week |
Email campaign to promote art in all of its diversity. To receive the weekly emails, please email your request to aseem888@gmail.com. |
| Art Sparker |
An idea that excites the synaptic nerves in your brain and stirs your imagination |
| ArtPoints.net |
Essays about art and art education, events, and art links sponsored by Camlin Artists' Materials. Features student art and art societies across the country.Sign up for their eNewsletter. |
| Artsconnected |
A joint project of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and Walker Art Center. Create a presentation using artworks from these two museums. |
| The Artist's Toolkit |
Explore how artists use line, color and balance. Interactive. |
| Artist's Statement |
Molly Gordon's "How to write your Artist's Statement" |
| Arts Education Partnership: Iowa Database |
Data concerning arts education in the state of Iowa. |
| The Art Zone |
Interactive Online Art Making for kids and adults, sponsored by the National Gallery of Art |
| @Issue |
Journal of Business and Design is dedicated to communicating how quality design contributes to business success--exciting examples of art and design today! |
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Dick Blick is an AEI sponsor.
The Best Art Supplies ...at the best discounts! Since 1911, artists have turned to Blick for dependable savings, a huge selection, and fine customer service on art supplies. |
| Balance Video |
An example of Alexander Calder's balance technique |
| Bloom's Taxonomy including digital language |
A curriculum writing tool |
| Cakes |
Produce Wayne Thiebaud style cakes online |
| Calligraphy |
See the new St. John's Bible |
| Cardboard Sculptures by Chris Gilmour |
Amazing realism |
| Creative Classroom |
Listing of sites, information and lesson plans |
| CREO |
is a visual culture magazine with activities that you and your students can do |
| Crayola |
Activities for classes or individuals, calendar, new products. |
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College of Visual Arts is an AEI Sponsor.
The College of Visual Arts is a private, accredited, four-year college of art and design offering a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in fine arts, graphic design, illustration, interdisciplinary art and design studies, and photography. |
| Design a Still Life |
An interactive site from National Gallery. Fun! (webmaster: This site didn't work with my new Snow Leopard OS.) |
| D.U.C. |
Distribution of free contemporary art books |
| edutopia |
The George Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF) was founded in 1991 as a nonprofit operating foundation to celebrate and encourage innovation in schools. They publish the stories of innovative teaching and learning through a variety of media -- a magazine, e-newsletters, DVDs, books, and this Web site |
| Effect Of Colors |
ScienceDaily, Feb, 2009: Blue Boosts Creativity, While Red Enhances Attention To Detail |
| Free Resources |
.gov site for educational excellence |
| Frida Kahlo |
Interactive from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
| Games for the Brain |
Features games with a visual emphasis |
| Google Art Project |
Visit Famous art works in world-famous museums, virtually. |
| Google Sketchup |
Downloadable 3D drawing program |
| Incredible Art Lessons |
Lesson plans, sharing, lessons for individuals |
| Iowa Pathways |
Timeline of history of artists in Iowa |
| Iowa Museums and Galleries |
An extensive list with links from the Iowa Arts Council |
| Jackson Pollock |
It will look like absolutely nothing, but just start to move your cursor over the screen (left click to change colors) reload to start over. |
| The Knowledge Loom |
Educators Sharing and Learning Together. A source of information about Teaching Artistic Behaviors and Choice-Based Art Education. |
| Lascaux |
Take your students for a walk through the caves, virtually |
| The Memory Project |
Your secondary students produce a portrait painting of a child living in an orphanage around the world as a service project |
| Morphing Presidents |
From Washington to Obama |
| Mr. Picasso Head |
Use Picasso-style parts to create a portrait and email it to someone |
| Mystudio Gallery |
Famous Paintings, artist research links, or buy posters |
| New Face of Art |
Thanks to a soft drink company, you and your students can see world famous new artists and their work. You can also use fun type-face to create a message |
| Not on the Test |
Tom Chapin's song about NCLB |
| Origami Fun |
Directions (video or printed) for Students or Teachers |
| Origami Master Won Park |
He makes origami. See a video interview. He does NOT live in a garbage truck. |
| PBS Arts Teachers |
Listed by grade level |
| Pixlr |
Free online photo editior. |
| Podsafe Audio |
Copyright free music for your students' video projects |
| Prezi |
Create astonishing presentations online or live |
| iRubric |
Free rubric maker also you can browse other rubrics that are public and share your rubrics with others |
| Rubistar |
Create a rubric or modify an existing one |
| Sand Sculpture |
How To plus Beautiful Examples. A Kid's Corner, too |
| Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators |
Index of Art and Architecture sites on Discovery Education |
| Smarthistory |
An online art history book with using multimedia (much more interesting than that old Janson book from your college days) |
| Snow Days |
Create a unique snowflake online |
| Snowflake Cutting |
Easy enough for the youngest computer users to Make-a-flake |
| Sanford-ArtEdventures |
For creative individuals, beginner to advanced |
| Spiral Art Education |
Cool Curriculum from Olivia Gude. Mostly secondary projects fostering community and self-valuing |
| Teaching for Artistic Behavior |
A way of life in the art room! Try it! TAB: Choice Based Art Education fosters "Thinking like an Artist!" |
| TED: Ideas Worth Spreading |
This is the result of a search for "art." Speakers give the "talk of their lives" in less than 18 minutes. |
| Teachers First: Art |
Thinking teachers teach thinking." 700 creative activities |
| Through the Flowers |
Judy Chicago's (The Dinner Party) website whose mission is to educate a broad public about the importance of art and its power in countering the erasure of women's achievements. |
| The Van Gogh Games |
Put together an online puzzle, then add stars to the Starry, Starry Night by answering the quiz questions correctly. |
| Web 2.0 |
Weekly Challenge Activities to challenge artists of all ages |
| West Foundation |
Art and artist support programs funded for Western Iowa, Council Bluffs region |
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