Art+Websites

[] Created for art educators, this comprehensive site provides articles on child development and art instructions, updates on education policies, and information on it national convention. The “Learning” link contains extensive curriculum and lesson plans.

[] Check out this web based application that can turn anyone into an artist capable of making wonderful kaleidoscope pictures. It is a Java-based applet that provides a number of brush sizes and creates colorful kaleidoscope pictures by simply dragging the mouse around the canvas area. There is also an auto feature that creates beautiful images. Once an image is created, the artist can save the drawing using the directions at the site. The artwork can then be used as clip art in Word PowerPoint, or other programs; or the picture can be pasted into a drawing program for further drawing. Think about using this site as a learning center activity, or have students create a picture and then write a description or a poem about it.

[] An alien on a mission journeys to two NYC museums to explore modern art. Students can tag along and click on the objects to learn about the pieces and the artist as well as let their own creative energy flow through interactive elements. (K-3)

[] Eduweb is an ward-winning developer of digital learning games and activities focusing on art, history, and science. The developers work with major organizations to design activities that use technology as a tool for the acquisition of deeper knowledge. The site serves as a portal to tits collaborative collection of high-quality projects, searchable by subject, title, or grade.

[] On this Web site, you can design a house, walk through it in 3D, and then share it with the world. You can also learn more about architecture, past and present, and explore Frank Lloyd Wright's life and work. [] The Allentown Art Museum's interactive educational web site. With the simple click of a mouse button, travel 500 years into the past to discover many Renaissance innovations revealed through the Allentown Art Museum's Samuel H. Kress Collection of European art. Be a patron of the arts. Design your own innovation. Investigate Renaissance artworks in depth. Discover how past innovations inform life today. And more, all enhanced with quirky visuals, irreverent humor, and engaging interactivity that reveal the ways that Renaissance life and culture resemble our own.

[] A highly participatory site which invites viewers to discuss the object and themes communally, and even to curate their own mini-exhibition online for others to view.

[|http://www.artsmia.org/world%2Dmyths/] <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Explore myths and legends from around the world with great works of art and in-depth interpretations and interactive features.

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">[] <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Arts Edge, The National Arts and Education Network, “supports the placement of arts at the center of the curriculum and advocates creative use of technology to enhance the K-12 educational experience. Via the site, educators have access to free standards-based teaching materials, student activities and guidelines for instruction and assessment. Three main portals – Teach, Connect, and Explore – connect the user to extensive searchable databases of lessons, b3eb links, articles, and art-based activities.

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">[] largest kids art museum

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">[] <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Welcome to Odyssey Online, an interactive journey through ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, and the Near East; the ancient Americas; and sub-Saharan Africa of the 19th and 20th centuries. On Odyssey, you can explore works of art from the collections of Emory University's Michael C. Carlos Museum and the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. These objects--made from stone, clay, wood, metal, and fiber--tell us fascinating stories about the people who made them, in distant lands and times! Enjoy the journey!

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">[] lessons, tips, place to post student work

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">[] The principles of art design come alive at this web site. Balance, contrast, emphasis, movement, and proportion are some of the elements covered.

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">[] K-12, courtesy of John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and Thinkfinity. Includes a wealth of resources such as comprehensive searchable databases of curriculum units/lessons and research students and articles. Plus, there are featured resources, links to standards, “this day in the arts,” and more.

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">[] <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Courtesy of the Getty Center for Education in the Arts, this site contains a wealth of resources to support K-12 curriculum. The Lesson Plans and Curriculum Ideas sections contains resources for teachers on all grade levels, including a scope and sequence guide to help educators develop curriculum that reflect a comprehensive approach to learning and teaching in an through art. Although most of the lessons have particular application to art at the Getty Museum, they could be easily adapted.

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">/[] <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">For children, families, and teachers, this site provides several interactive learning experiences, an explore and learn area, a timeline of art history. FAQs for kids, activities to consider when visiting the Metropolitan Museum, and more.

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">[] <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">A detailed presentation of the large collection of paintings, sculpture, prints, and decorative art objects. The artworks include the most well-known masterpieces to the simplest sketches; online tours of selected groups of works and the collection of objects is searchable.

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">[] <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">This is a place “where Teachers and students can connect art and curriculum,.” In addition to featured resources, teacher can access lesson plans and resources by curriculum, topic, or artist. One terrific example for K-3 uses Alexander Calder’s works to teach basic math concepts.

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">[] <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">This national treasure includes colonial to contemporary art exhibits with extensive education resources. Over 4000 works are available, including photographs, paintings and crafts with helpful teaching guides. Ask “Joan of Art” your specific art related questions.

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">[] <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">This Web-based museum is dedicated to showcasing the art, technology and culture of the Internet. The Kids Wing (for K-3) includes counters, clocks, buttons, animated ads, and more.

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">[] <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Subtitled: “Dictionary of Visual Art,” over 3,600 terms are defined, with links to illustrations and realt4ed terms and Web sites. Artist’s names and titles of individual works are included in the definitions, but are not searchable or included as separate entries.

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">[] <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">For advanced student and their teachers, here you will find an array of resources for serious study – Libraries and Study Centers, Online Resources, Image Resources, and a wide array of Teacher Resources.

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">[] <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Eduweb is an ward-winning developer of digital learning games and activities focusing on art, history, and science. The developers work with major organizations to design activities that use technology as a tool for the acquisition of deeper knowledge. The site serves as a portal to tits collaborative collection of high-quality projects, searchable by subject, title, or grade.

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">[] <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Learning Through Art encourages teachers and teaching artists to design art projects that support student learning across the curriculum.

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Artist’s Toolkit: Visual Elements and Principals [] <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Explore the tools visual artists’ use - like line, color, and balance - to create visual art.

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Mr. Picasso Head [] <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Create a Picasso painting using shapes, paints, lines, and design.

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">[] <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">This interactive website illustrates the beauty, engineering and technology of large structures. Although this site supports the PBS series, it can stand on its own as a vehicle for studying architecture in various environments.