Art Education

Access Art
http://www.accessart.org.uk/
An incredible British site with free Visual Arts Online Workshops. From a foundation funded, non-profit organization.

• Colour
• Drawing
• Immersive Learning space
• Installation Arts
• Photography & Video
• Sculpture

Kept current. For Elementary through High School students.

American Collection: Sister Wendy
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/sisterwendy/
From the PBS series. Excellent analysis of the art works by Sister Wendy. Information about the six museums with four or five pieces from each:

• The Art Institute of Chicago
• The Cleveland Museum of Art
• Kimball Art Museum, Fort Worth
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

For Middle and High School teachers and their students.

Annenberg/CPB: Learner.org
http://www.learner.org
“Professional development programming for K-12 teachers FREE through our satellite channel and Video On Demand.” Excellent arts programming.

Kept current. For Elementary, Middle and High School teachers.

The Art Institute of Chicago: Art Access
http://www.artic.edu/artaccess
Analysis of selected items form the collection to enrich visitor/s understanding of their content, style, and historical context. There are ten to twelve images in each category plus a description and explanation of each. Excellent.

• Ancient Indian Art of the Americas
• African American Art
• Impressionism and Post-Impressionism
• Modern and Contemporary Art
• American Art to 1900
• Art of India, Himalayas & Southeast Asia
• Renaissance & Baroque Art
• Rococo to Realism

Last update, October 2003. For teachers and their students.

The Art Teacher Connection: Encouraging Technology Innovation in Art Education
http://www.artteacherconnection.com
A very interesting site from Bettie Lake, an art teacher in Phoenix. The focus is a series of carefully chosen links to:

• Art Instruction
• Teaching with the Web
• Lesson Links
• Art Topics
• Art and Culture

There are also several examples of art lessons, Grades 4-12.

No record of updating policy. For Elementary and Middle School teachers.

Artlex
http://www.artlex.com/
An art dictionary with 3,300+ terms along with "thousands of images, pronunciation notes, great quotations and links to other resources on the Web." Search alphabetically. By Michael Delahunt, Arizona (High School Art Teacher).

Kept current. For Upper Elementary, Middle and High School teachers and students

ArtsConnectEd
http://www.artsconnected.org
A cooperative project of the Minneapolis Institute of Art and the Walker Art Center. A superb interactive site for student use.

• art gallery
• for your classroom
• library & archives
• playground

A 2000 copyright, but the site is different and much more interesting than when last we visited a year ago. For Elementary, Middle and High School teachers and students.

ARTSEDGE
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/artsedge.html
From the Kennedy Center. One of the very best arts education sites. Here are:

• Teach – Lessons, Standards, Weblinks,How Tos
• Connect – Articles and Reports, Contacts, Advocacy Essentials
• Explore – Look-Listen-Learn, Arts Days, Meet the Artist, Arts Quotes

Kept current. For Elementary, Middle, and High School teachers.

ArtsEdNet: Teacher Programs and Resources
http://www.getty.edu/artsednet/home.html
From the Getty Museum Education Department.  The site is newly redesigned and has two major sections:

• Professional Development Opportunities at the Getty
• A Guide to Building Visual Arts Lessons: Grade by Grade Guide, The Elements of Art, Lesson Template

Last updated in 2005. For Elementary, Middle and High School teachers.

An Arizona Commission on the Arts Artist in Residence program

Arts Studio Chalkboard
http://www2.evansville.edu/studiochalkboard/index.html
An award winning site from Mark Lamann at the University of Evansville. Very good exercises for:

• Drawing and
  
• Painting

Kept current. For High School teachers and advanced High School students.

Artswork: Assessment Resources
http://artswork.asu.edu/arts/teachers/assessment/discipline4.htm
Three Visual Arts assessment examples
http://artswork.asu.edu/arts/teachers/assessment/resources.htm
Web sites with assessment materials updated August 2005.

For Elementary, Middle, and High School teachers.

Artswork: Curriculum Sites
http://artswork.asu.edu/arts/teachers/curriculum/visarts1.htm
Elementary and Secondary curriculum examples.
http://artswork.asu.edu/arts/teachers/curriculum/links.htm
Links to curriculum examples from national sites. Updated September 2005.

For Elementary, Middle and High School teachers and curriculum designers.

Artswork: Lessons for Students
http://artswork.asu.edu/arts/students/index.htm
Art texts from master teachers, ready for student use:

• Explorations in Art: Expressionism/Painting
• Navajo Pottery
• Political Cartooning
• Line, Shape, Form and Pattern
• Careers
• Celebrating Excellence in Ceramics (2004)
  http://artswork.asu.edu/cec/index.htm

For Middle and High School students.

Artswork: Lesson Plans
http://artswork.asu.edu/arts/teachers/lesson/visarts/index.htm
A dozen field-tested lesson plans.
http://artswork.asu.edu/arts/teachers/lesson/resources.htm
Carefully selected lesson plan links. All lessons are standards based.

Updated September 2005. For Elementary, Middle and High School teachers.

Artswork: Standards
http://artswork.asu.edu/arts/teachers/standards/index.htm
The more recent state standards documents are annotated and linked to the state sites. The Putnam Valley School link puts you in touch with all fifty states.

Updated September 2005. For Elementary, Middle, and High School teachers.

Cardboard Cognition
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/courses/edtec670/Cardboard/Matrix.html
A site with several art games for K-12 kids. Created by San Diego State University students. You and your students are invited to create your own games and submit them. Fun!

Chicana and Chicano Space
http://mati.eas.asu.edu/ChicanArte
Posted by the Hispanic Research Center at Arizona State University. Project directors are Drs. Gary Keller Cardenas and Mary Erickson. The site includes:

• The Art Index which presents over 25 Chicana/o and earlier artworks and detailed information about each
• Three thematic, inquiry based, interdisciplinary units: Protest and Persuasion, Images of Me, and Who Cares for Art: a National Treasure by Luis Jimenez; and
• Inquiry Learning which presents questions to guide students as they study the Protest and Persuasion and the Images of Me units.

Posted 2001. For Middle and High School teachers

An Arizona Commission on the Arts Artist
in Residence program

Dick Blick
http://www.dickblick.com
Art supplies to order online.

Educator’s Reference Desk (Formerly Ask Eric)
http://www.eduref.org/
A federally funded site with valuable lesson plans and information:

• Resource Guides including educational technology, evaluation, general education (motivation, learning theories and more) reference (employment), specific populations (special education, rural education, more)
• Lesson plans searchable by grade, for: Art History, Computers in Art, Music, Process Skills, Visual Arts
• Question Archives, searched by subject, has advocacy and answers of often asked questions
• Search GEM, The Gateway to Educational Materials, provides a word search of over 40,000 educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit and commercial Internet sites.

Kept current. For Elementary, Middle School, and High School teachers.

Explore & Learn
http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/index.asp
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s excellent site with learning activities related to their collections.

• Just for Fun: fourteen interactive museum adventures that are fun while helping the children learn about art.
• A Closer Look: the hows and whys behind seven museum exhibitions
• Artists: biographies for fourteen artists whose work in is the museum
• Themes and Cultures: based on eighteen collections in the museum
• Publications for Educators
• What’s New: latest online feature (all about Van Gogh when I visited!)
• Timeline of Art History: 22,000 years of art as seen through the Met’s collection
• Daily Art Work Archive (Goya when I visited)

Grows with new shows and has weekly examples. For teachers and students.

How to "Read" a Painting
http://www.kcsd.k12.pa.us/~projects/critic
A site from a Pennsylvania school integrating technology into the curriculum. The information includes material for scanning a painting: objectives, resources (links to major museums on line), process, and assessment, plus examples of art criticism from sixth grade students.

For Middle School teachers.

Mark Harden's Artchive
http://www.artchive.com/core.html
Maintained by Mark Harden, the editor at Glyphs, and supported by contributions. A remarkable site that catalogues images online.

• The Artchive includes essays and a list of Images on the Web for artists organized by school (e.g. abstract expressionism), medium (sculptors), period (e.g. ancient art). He's beaten the copyright problem by exhibiting posters.
• Juxtapositions includes sixteen sets of images and text chosen around a theme. Fun!
• Theory & Criticism has critical essays with links to the images
• Art Links includes: Museums, Artists, Resources
• Galleries includes images and information about: Goya, Rembrandt, The First Impressionist Exhibition 1874, Sculpture Garden, 1925 The Year in Review, Recent Acquisitions and Beckman
• Art CD Rom Reviews

Kept current. For teachers and, with guidance, students.

MSN Professional Cartoonists Index
http://cagle.msnbc.com/
Several pages of links with very terse annotations. Not for students since “sex” links are just one level down on some sites. But there is a Teachers Guide with appropriate material!

Kept current. For teachers.

Sanford Art Edventures
http://www.sanford-artedventures.com
A commercial site from Sanford, suppliers of art products, that has some interesting activities and information for students about making and appreciating art. Included are:

• Create Art: Hands-on activities, technique demos and more
• Study Art:
• Play Art Games: ArtEdventures and online activities about art history and art concepts
• Teach Art: Lesson Plans for classroom and art teachers

Kept Current. For Upper Elementary, Middle and High School teachers.

From an Arizona Commission on the
Arts Artist in Residence program

Associations

AAEA - Arizona Arts Education Association
http://azarted.org/
In addition to association information, the site has a Resources section with: Lesson Plans (a call for), Advocacy, Professional Development, Teaching Information, Vendor List

Kept current. For Elementary, Middle and High School teachers.

Incredible @ssociations
http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/aeai/aeai.html
state and international visual art association links.

INSEA – International Society for Education through Art
http://cspace.unb.ca/insea

NAEA - the National Art Education Association
http://www.naea-reston.org/
includes information about membership and conferences. The publications are extensive.

Kept current. For Elementary, Middle and High School teachers.

Special Education

Family Village
http://www.familyvillage.wisc.edu/leisure/arts.html
Devoted to disability-related resources. Links annotated.

Updated July 2005. For teachers.