Art Teacher Connection

Original lessons and ideas designed to incorporate computer technology into the visual arts are shared. The Digital Links Newsletter is available via e-mail for $25 a year.

ArtiFAQ2001

ArtiFAQ 21OO is designed to predict how art will influence our lives in the next hundred years. Through probing past Art timeline, inspirations and scientific methods students can use available data to make reasonable forecasts for a preferrable future. Solving their challenging quizzes will give you the key to the Future Art Gallery.

Artsedge

This is a good starting point for the arts. You will find lessons, links to museums, and ways to participant in community cultural events.

ArtsEdNet - Starting Point

Developed by the Getty Education Institute for the Arts, this Website focuses on helping arts educators, general classroom teachers using the arts in their curriculum, museum educators, and university faculty involved in the arts. Discussions and articles encourage the exchange of ideas.

ArtServe

Australian National University’s gallery of art history presents over 70,000 images of classical, medieval, and renaissance architecture and sculpture.

Aunt Annie's Craft Page

Grab your glue guns, scissors, and craft materials. Watch butterflies pop up from cards, geometric designs take shape, and animated stick puppets come to life. Complete illustrated step-by-step instructions, patterns, tie-in books, and links are provided. This is an exceptional Website for elementary artists.

The Brownie@100

A celebration of the 100th anniversary of the introduction of the Brownie camera.

Carlos’s Coloring Book

Choose between simple and expert modes. Pick from birthday, Christmas, crown, flower, house, or snowman pictures. Color them interactively and save them. This web is brought to you by Carlos A. Pero.

Crayola Art Education

Binny and Smith have produced an excellent resource for art teachers. There are directions for creating with many different types of art media. In addition, there is a history of crayons and contests that students can enter.

French Ministry of Culture French Cave Paintings

Text and images about the the Chauvet Cave prehistoric cave art discovery.

Imagination Factory

The Imagination Factory integrates art with science and social studies to teach solid waste management concepts in a fun and entertaining way. Visitors learn how to make art using easy to obtain solid waste as a source of free materials. Some of the activities include drawing, painting, sculpture, collage, papier-mâché, marbling and crafts.

A Journey Through Art with W. H. Johnson

William Johnson (1901-1970), a major figure in 20th-century American Art, studied at the National Academy of Design in New York. Prior to World War II he spent time learning from European artists in southern France. You are invited to journey through a chronological timeline of Johnson’s works. In this series of colorful paintings, you can observe how his style evolved. The “Fighters for Freedom” collection depicts famous men and women who were leaders in the quest for racial equality. In “Scenes from City Life and Country Life,” universal themes are portrayed that touch the human spirit. Activities for elementary students, such as creating a self-portrait, planning a make-believe trip, or writing a story about one of the paintings, accompany each page.

Le Weblouvre

Take a tour of the Louvre or Paris on this Website. This is a wonderful resource for finding information about famous artists and viewing their work.

Learning About Leonardo

Why is the Mona Lisa Smiling? offers rich multilingual cultural perspectives on the identity of Mona Lisa, while comparing two theories of Dr. Lillian Schwartz and Rina de Firenze, author of Mystery of the Mona Lisa. There are current articles online about the celebration of Leonardo's Bronze Horse in Milan as well as a view of the Mona Lisa Bridge in Oslo. Furthermore the site is accessible to the hearing impaired. Click on the signing hand to see the Special Needs Resources.

MUSÉE Directory to Museums

MUSÉE provides Web visitors with four different ways to search for museums.You can look by type of museum, alphabetically, by geographical location, or by review.

National Gallery of Art

Tour collections online such as Van Gogh's Van Goghs: Masterpieces from the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam or the Sculpture of Angkor and Ancient Cambodia: Millennium of Glory.

Scrapbooking

Find lots of ideas about making scrapbooks along with where to find supplies.