Art/Design Web Sites
African American Art
http://www.artic.edu/artaccess/AA_AfAm/index.html
Here's another great website to help your students celebrate Black History Month. This
site showcases one hundred years of African American art achievement . Artwork ranges
chronologically from the Civil War era to the Harlem Renaissance, from civil rights
struggles to the contemporary period. A click on a work of art produces notes about the
author and his work. Art Access provides lesson plans for grades 6 through 12 and
activities for families.
A Lifetime of Color
http://www.alifetimeofcolor.com/main.taf?p=0
This is the newly redesigned ArtEdventures site. Activities include paper-based lessons
for teaching techniques or browse the featured artists to learn more about their artwork.
ArtEdventures are interactive games for teachers and students that teach about art
concepts. Select Study to access the interactive timeline and art term glossary. Lesson
Plans let you search by grade or subject and are tied to National Visual Arts Standards.
A. Pintura, Art Detective
http://www.eduweb.com/pintura/
This online art history adventure, "The Case of Grandpa's Painting," teaches
students about art history and art composition. In the game, you play a 1940's noir
detective with a degree in art history. A distraught woman asks you to identify the artist
who made a painting she found in her grandfather's attic. To do so, you must examine
paintings by famous artists from Gauguin to Van Gogh. Each example highlights an art
concept such as composition, style or subject. The story concludes with an appropriate
noirish twist, as the woman's true identity and motives become apparent. Designed for 4th
Graders and up.
Architect Studio 3D
http://www.architectstudio3d.org/AS3d/index.html
Design a house with Frank Lloyd Wright. With Architect Studio 3D, the Frank Lloyd Wright
Preservation Trust brings to young architects everywhere the exciting process of designing
a home — hands-on. Starting as real architects do, with a client who has lifestyle
preferences and a site that has its own environmental considerations, you will use your
imagination to design your own architectural solutions.
Art Access
http://www.artic.edu/artaccess/
The Art Institute of Chicago has made lesson plans, family activities and multicultural
art resources are available at this site. Areas of study include Ancient Indian Art of the
Americas, African American Art, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, and Modern and
Contemporary Art.
Art Capades
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/capades/
At this site, students may select a painting by on the the world's best known artists,
print it with or without colors, and then either add color to the printout or use the
printout as amodel for a free-hand imitation of the artist's work. There are several
activities for working with these picutres. You can also view the site in Spanish.
Suitable for grades K-9.
ArtDaily.com
http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp
Art Daily is a weekly internet-based newspaper that covers the latest news of interest to
the art world. A great source for current art news and for details of exhibitions and art
fairs worldwide. A wonderful place to browse on a rainy day. Stunning images with links to
art magazines, artists, galleries, auctions, digital art collections, and more.
Art Educator (ARTiculation)
http://www.brigantine.atlnet.org/GigapaletteGALLERY/websites/ARTiculationFinal/MainPages/index.htm
The objectives of ARTiculation are to encourage you to look at a piece of artwork and to
understand what goes into the art making process. Over fifty activities reinforce what has
been learned in each section. Main sections include Elements of Art, Principles of Design,
and Art Critiquing Process. Also contains a Timeline, Vocabulary Section, and numerous
lessons plans and worksheets (Activities) in the Resource section.
ArtEdventures
http://www.alifetimeofcolor.com/play/play.html
ArtEdventures are interactive online games for teachers and students. In these fun and
educational activities, you'll discover how great artists made their famous
works—while learning tips and techniques for creating your own art!
Art in Cities
http://www.artincities.com/
This web site exists to collect submissions of artwork from cities all over the world, and
plot it on a map. To view the art, browse by selecting points on the map, or search by
City, Submitter, or Artist. Submitting art is as easy as uploading an image from your
computer, and filling out a few fields on a form, thus, encouraging anyone to walk the
streets of their city looking for art to add the site.
Artist's Toolkit (Minneapolis Institute of Arts)
http://www.artsconnected.org/toolkit/index.html
Another production from ArtsConnectEd and it's a good one! Each section (Line, Color,
Space, Shape, Balance, Movement/Rhythm) allows students to watch animated demonstrations,
view examples, and create their own. Includes an encyclopedia of Visual Elements (line,
shape, color, space, and texture) and Visual Principles (balance, emphasis,
movement/rhythm).
Art Kids Rule
http://artkidsrule.com/
A great place for playing, learning, and creating. Lots of interactive art activities.
Art of Science Competition
http://www.princeton.edu/%7Eartofsci/gallery/
This assembly of images presents a fascinating and beautiful cross section of the arts and
sciences at Princeton. It celebrates the aesthetics of research and the ways in which
science and art inform each other.
Art of Set Design: "The Light in the Piazza"
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/khtml/2005/05/31/multimedia/20050531_PIAZZA_SLIDESHOW.html
This site provides an interesting audio slideshow narrated by the set designer for the
Tony Award-winning musical "The Light in the Piazza." Its authors discuss the
set designer's art as well as the designer's inspirations for the sets, both the exterior
scenes of Florentine piazzas and the interiors of the Uffizi Gallery. The slides include
the designer's drawings and models as well as images from an actual performance.
@rt Room
http://www.arts.ufl.edu/art/rt_room/
Like art rooms in schools everywhere, this virtual art room is meant to be a
"special" place. Within its "walls," kids are offered opportunities to
create, to discover, to imagine, to invent, to learn, and to make their thoughts become
things. In short, the @rt room is a place for kids to explore their inner and outer
worlds. Click on the doorway and find art projects to spark your interest, games about
famous artists, a gallery of kids' art, and tips for @rtrageous thinking!
ArtsConnected
http://www.artsconnected.org/
ArtsConnected is produced by a partnership between the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and
the Walker Art Center. The purpose of the site is to provide timely, engaging and
interactive resources for the study of the arts. The site includes an Artist's toolkit
that permits the exploration of various art topics through animations and simulations. The
site includes other useful resources, including an Art Playground, a Library &
Archives, and a Classroom section that includes a Teacher's Guide and a searchable
database of activities.
ArtsEdge
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/
The Kennedy Center created this compelling site, which features all aspects of the arts:
music, dance, fine arts, and more. An awesome resource for students, teachers, parents,
and art lovers.
Arts Workshop
http://www.childrensmuseum.org/artsworkshop/index.html
Presented by The Children's Museum of Indianapolis, this site says, "Focus
on...Sculpture - Make it at Home!" There are some good art projects. Besides doing
them at home as suggested on the site, some would make good classroom projects.
Art Window
http://www.mmwindowtoart.com/
View Fine Art concepts with student work as teaching examples. Learning is divided into
the subjects of Drawing, Painting, 3D, Word Art, Graphics, Foundations, and Mixed Media.
The purpose of this site is to offer an opportunity for visitors to easily read content,
understand processes and techniques on the topics presented, enjoy the photo displays
provided and actively participate in the work themselves.
Building Big
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/lab/forces.html
Students can learn about squeezing, stretching, bending, sliding and twisting through
visual tools that they can manipulate. The authors also provide information on loads,
materials, and shapes. "Building Big" analyzes tunnels, bridges, domes,
skyscrapers, and dams, and provides fact sheets about famous examples of these projects
around the world.
Campfire Stories with George Catlin: An Encounter of Two Cultures
http://CatlinClassroom.si.edu
This site presents and interprets hundreds of George Catlin's artworks from the
Smithsonian American Art Museum's permanent collection. Campfire Stories uses art,
artifacts, and primary source texts to bridge American history, geography, art
appreciation, environmental conservation, and multicultural studies. The site and its
lesson plans were developed in consultation with a panel of teachers.
Carmine's Introduction to Architecture
http://www.alifetimeofcolor.com/play/arch1/
This is a tutorial giving students an introduction to architecture. They can learn what
architecture is, design a building, learn about Architecture as Art, and create their own
architecture using the included activities.
Carmine's Landscape Adventure
http://www.alifetimeofcolor.com/play/landscape1/
Short, simple tutorials demonstrate the use of depth, light, atmosphere to create feelings
in landscapes. Interactive activities allow students to practice with their own examples.
Simple quizzes throughout reinforce basic concepts.
Cartoonster
http://www.cartoonster.com/
Cartoonster's free online tutorials provide step by step instructions for drawing and
animating. Techniques are simple and can be done with no special materials. The site is
totally flash-driven and full of examples that make sense.
Cézanne's Apples
http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/cezannes_apples/splash.html
This is an online activity where young children can learn about the artist Paul Cézanne.
Color in Motion
http://www.mariaclaudiacortes.com/
An interactive site by Claudia Cortes introduces color in a fun way. There are animated
figures that explain how you can use colors to communicate and how colors symbolize
certain emotions and events. There are activities such as a kaleidescope and a scene maker
where you can design a still scene based upon a word given to you. This is an excellent,
fun site that is also available in Spanish.
Colors of Clay: Special Techniques in Athenian Vases
http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/colors_clay/homepage.html
This web exhibition from The Getty takes you on a guided tour of the various ways in which
Athenian vase painters decorated clay vessels between 550 and 340 B.C. Eight styles and
techniques are explored: Bilingual, Coral Red, Six's Technique, Added Clay and Gilding,
Outline Drawing, White Ground, Plastic, and Kerch Style. Zoomable images of artifacts,
textual captions, and, in a few cases, audio curators' commentary are used at the site to
explain the eight techniques.
Conservator's Studio (Seattle Art Museum)
http://www.seattleartmuseum.org/exhibit/interactives/mexicanModernism/enter.asp#
Interactively explore four paintings from the Mexican Modernism exhibition through the
eyes of a conservator (What's a conservator? You'll find that out too!). You'll have a new
perspective on the paintings as well as how they are handled and prepared for display.
Includes information about conservator's tools and a glossary.
Crayola.com
http://www.crayola.com/
This site takes awhile to load, but has many good activites with links to Crafts, a Card
Creator and Coloring Pages among others. There are separate sections for Educators and
Parents.
Create My Art Gallery
http://www.seattleartmuseum.org/myartgallery/
This flash-enhanced site from the Seattle Museum of Art teaches kids how to understand
works of art, and then helps them to select art to place in their own Virtual Gallery. One
of the best art appreciation sites on the Web for students in Grades 2-6.
Design a Coat of Arms
http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/british_galleries/designa/coat_of_arms/coat_of_arms.html
A site that combines history with collaboration as students, perhaps working in teams,
design their own colorful heraldic coat of arms, printable and Email-able. Lots of
teachable moments here, especially when it comes time to add a motto.
Destination: Modern Art
http://www.moma.org/destination/
This fun interactive Web site by the Museum of Modern Art enables elementary school-aged
children to engage with and explore modern art.
Discover What Art Is...Through the Eyes of Children
http://www.vsarts.org/prebuilt/showcase/gallery/exhibits/dwai/
View this large gallery of amazing artwork created by children with disabilities and learn
how each of these special artists answers the fundamental question, "What is
art?" The responses, often poignant and poetic, are sure to open the eyes of anyone
just learning to think about art. This is a terrific site for families seeking ways to
introduce their children to art.
Doodles, Drafts, and Designs
http://www.sil.si.edu/exhibitions/doodles/cf/working.cfm
Drawing is a key element in an inventor's skill set. When it comes to the working out of
new ideas, inventors turn to pencil and paper. Mixing art and science, this exhibition
site showcases a collection of industrial drawings that reflect the knowledge, creativity,
and intent of their makers. Unique examples on display include plans for industrial and
household products, Tupperware, clothing, architectural monuments, and sports equipment.
Also includes biographies of selected inventors, whose life and work tell the story of
American ingenuity.
Doodle Pad
http://www.noggin.com/games/doodlepad/
This is just a fun little site where young students can create with crayons, paint,
fingerpaint, glitterpens, and stamps.
Drawing in One-Point Perspective
http://www.olejarz.com/arted/perspective/
Perspective helps to make drawing more realistic, but it's not always easy to get it
right. An art teacher and artist created this site to acquaint students of all ages with
the subject of one-point perspecive. The site guides you, step by step, through a number
of sample drawings.
Early American Paintings
http://www.worcesterart.org/Collection/Early_American/
While the paintings can add depth to the study of U.S. History, the timeline may be the
real treasure here as it chronicles the main events from 1671 to 1829. Students can enter
the collection by clicking buttons that lead to sections arranged by artist, genre, and
place of origin. Students view artwork and read biographies of twenty artists, review
information on fifty-three paintings, and get information on twenty-four additional works.
Each of the seventy-seven works is illustrated.
Enchanted Learning: Crafts for Kids
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/
This site from Enchanted Learning features hundreds of educational craft projects for
children in more than 70 topic areas. Clearly illustrated directions are provided for each
project along with lots of other related activity ideas. Suitable for grades 2-7.
Exploring Leonardo
http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/
Experience the creations of one of the most famous painters of the Italian Renaissance;
Leonardo DaVinci. Although he is best known for his paintings, Leonardo conducted dozens
of experiments and created futuristic inventions.
Eye Contact: Modern American Portrait Drawings from the National Portrait
Gallery
http://www.npg.si.edu/cexh/eye/index.html
Flash-based exhibition from the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery uses
portrait drawings dating from the 1880s to the 1980s to show the ways in which the art of
portraiture has been changed by trends in 20th century art. Easy navigation through the
show's five sections and audio comments by Wendy Wick Reaves, curator of the exhibition,
are available in selected sections.
Eyes on Art
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/art2/index.html
Eyes on Art offers activities designed to help students learn and apply visual arts
vocabulary and understand how artistic elements and design techniques function in
paintings. The six sections have activities designed to lead in a progression. Beginning
students start with “You Choose,” which allows them to make a connection with
different paintings before they discuss what elements make something a good work of art.
More advanced students can begin with “Double Visions,” where they embark more
in depth on the adventure of “seeing” a work of art.
Frank Lloyd Wright: Art and Technology in Harmony
http://www.delmars.com/wright/flwright.htm
Frank Lloyd Wright remains among the great American architects of the 20th century, his
work a unique nexus of art, technology, and nature. Even if his works appear on ties and
bookmarks, the buildings and texts remain among the most exciting in the field. This site
offers students and teachers a Web based perspective on Wright's career complete with
extensive links to other resources on the architect and his structures.
From Microscopes to Large-Scale Scupture
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4079067
National Public Radio makes the connection between art and science by exploring the work
of sculptor Kendall Buster. Site visitors can open an audio file to hear an interview with
microbiologist-turned-artist Kendall Buster. Buster uses the images she sees through a
microscope as inspiration to create her monumental sculptures, which can be walked through
and experienced as three-dimensional worlds.
Georges Seurat: The Drawings
http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2007/seurat/
French artist Georges Seurat is best known for the painting "A Sunday on La Grande
Jatte" and as the inventor of pointillism, but there is so much more to his artwork
that's often forgotten. This Web site explores his art, his techniques, and his brief
life.
Georgia O'Keeffe
http://ellensplace.net/okeeffe1.html
Learn about the life and work of Georgia O'Keeffe. Sections include The Young Artist,
O'Keeffe and Stieglitz, and The Faraway. The sections include images of some of her unique
paintings.
Gift of the Indus
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/pakistan/default.htm
The Kennedy Center provides a wonderful set of integrated resources that ties the people,
the land, and daily life of Pakistan to its artistic and cultural traditions. Learn about
Pakistani music, theater, dance, painting, sculpture, calligraphy, architecture, and
decorative arts. This is an excellent site for examining art within a specific geographic
and cultural context.
Global Children's Art Gallery
http://www.naturalchild.com/gallery/
See how children from Canada to Japan and from California to Massachusetts view the world.
Children between the ages of 1 and 12 from all over the world have submitted their artwork
to this site. See the flags from their country and state next to their artwork.
Grandeur of Viceregal Mexico
http://www.fm.coe.uh.edu/default.htm
The Grandeur of Viceregal Mexico, Treasures from the Museo Franz Mayer web site is a
collaborative effort between the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and faculty and graduate
students at the University of Houston, College of Education, Instructional Technology
Program. The works of art are grouped into four sections. The first introduces the many
cultures that influenced colonial Mexican art. The next sections focus on art made for the
church and for domestic use. The final section introduces new styles inspired by art from
ancient Greece and Rome and 18th-century France and England. Resources for Teachers
includes a handbook, standards-based lessons, games and activities. There is also a
Timeline that provides links to other sources of information. Also in Spanish.
Great Buildings Collection
http://www.greatbuildings.com/
"This gateway to architecture around the world and across history documents a
thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects, with 3D models, photographic images
and architectural drawings, commentaries, bibliographies, web links, and more, for famous
designers and structures of all kinds."
Hands on Crafts for Kids
http://craftsforkids.com/projects.htm
Crafts provide learning opportunities as well as a means of self-expression. Designed with
educators in mind, this resource-rich companion site to the public television program
Hands on Crafts provides curriculum-based, illustrated, easy-to-follow directions for
hundreds of crafts. Suitable for grades 2-6.
How to Draw a Bunny
http://www.unclefred.com/draw/bunny/bunny01.html
Cartoon artist "Uncle" Fred Lasswell — author and illustrator of the
syndicated comic strip "Barney Google and Snuffy Smith" — provides
step-by-step instructions for drawing a bunny. This is an easy-to-follow exercise that
emphasizes creative expression and joy in using different art media and materials.
Imagination Factory
http://www.kid-at-art.com/
"There is no machinery at The Imagination Factory, and smokestacks don't pollute the
air. Instead, we teach children and their caregivers creative ways to recycle by making
art. Recycling is one way to minimize or lessen the amount of trash we have to throw away.
When we recycle, we make a new product out of waste materials. This process helps save
natural resources like trees as well as landfill space and the money needed to get rid of
trash."
Inside Art
http://www.eduweb.com/insideart/
Inside Art is an online game which explores a painting from the inside out. During an art
museum tour, you're sucked into a vortex and find yourself inside a mystery painting. Your
only hope of escape is to answer the questions "Who?/What?/Where?/How?" A fish
named Trish is your guide in this exploration of Van Gogh's Bank of the Oise at Auvers in
its artistic and historical context.
Joseph Wu's Origami Page
http://www.origami.vancouver.bc.ca/
Kaleidoscope
http://www.pbs.org/parents/creativity/sensory/kaleidoscope.html
This is a great site for young students to explore design. They can create a kaleidoscope
of shapes and adjust the viewing speed. There are other games under Sensory Stuff such as
Matisse Cut-Outs and Designer Butterflies.
Kaleidoscope Painter
http://www.permadi.com/java/spaint/spaint.html
Student's can use their imagination to create kaleioscope pictures with this online
applet. Just click and drag the mouse slowly around the black square. Changing the brush
size creates a different look. Click Clear to start over.
Land That Design Forgot
http://www.sanford-artedventures.com/play/id1/index.html
Students can explore this activity to help them understand the fundamentals of design.
Help Carmine redesign a playground so it works well and looks good!
Language of Native American Baskets from the Weaver's View (Smithsonian)
http://www.nmai.si.edu/exhibitions/baskets/
Baskets accompanied Indian people throughout their lives. Babies were carried in baskets,
meals were prepared and cooked in them, worldly goods were stored in them, and people were
buried in them. Today, baskets serve as markers of cultural pride and inheritance.
Basketry is a living art. To help illustrate continuity from past to present, each weaver
chose four baskets from the Smithsonian collections and paired them with baskets from
their own or other Native basket-makers contemporary works. These juxtapositions and the
weavers' thoughts on what they tell us, are presented in "The Weavers' View."
Links on the top navigation bar and side navigation bars lead to a wealth of information
and lots of images of baskets. From the Smithsonian National Museum of the American
Indian.
Living Colour
http://www.austmus.gov.au/colour/
The Living Colour pages on the Australian Museum's web site are a fun way to explore
colors. Flash-based animation and interactive exercises will capture children's attention
while teaching them basic knowledge about the science of light, color perception, and the
uses of color in nature or everyday life.
Lizzy Visits the Sculpture Garden
http://www.nga.gov/kids/lizzy/lizzy.html
Lizzy is dragged to the National Gallery of Art because brother Gordon has to do a school
assignment. Gordon ends up being more interested in lunch than artistic statement while
Lizzy discovers a sculpture can speak to her. As they follow along through this adventure,
both kids and adults will be charmed with the childlike drawings and interactive
information on sculpture.
Make-a-Flake
http://snowflakes.barkleyus.com/
This is a site where you can make your own snowflake. Use the scissors to cut as many
holes as you wish, preview your flake, then cut some more or start over. You can save your
flake as a JPG file and visit the gallery to view it.
Manet and the Execution of Maximilian
http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2006/Manet/index.htm
Combining art with social studies, this online exhibition from the Museum of Modern Art
focuses on five works by the French artist Manet depicting the execution of Emperor
Maximilian of Mexico. A fascinating and in-depth look at one artist's reaction to a
political event that was unfolding in his lifetime, the exhibit takes the form of a
timeline that juxtaposes Manet's works with contemporary newspaper accounts of the
execution and other primary source materials.
Mark Kestler's Imagination Station
http://www.draw3d.com
At this site, Mark Kistler, star of the PBS televsion series Imagination Station, shows
you haw to draw three-dimensional pictures, guiding you step by step through a number of
lessons.
Meet Me at Midnight
http://midnight.si.edu/default_flash.html
Meet Me at Midnight is an online game requiring players to return a piece of stolen
artwork to its rightful location inside the Smithsonian. With clues to unravel, artworks
to unscramble, and art terms to learn along the way, Meet Me at Midnight is an interactive
exercise in art appreciation that unfolds like a comic book adventure.
Mind of Leonardo
http://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/menteleonardo/
A comprehensive museum-mounted exhibition on Leonardo da Vinci that looks at all his
intellectual and creative pursuits: artistic, scientific, mathematic, and technological.
Includes an array of stunning images and video presentations, along with informative
descriptions that clearly demonstrate the relationship of art to other disciplines.
National Museum of Women in the Arts
http://www.nmwa.org/collection/
This link brings to you the permanent collection of the National Museum of Women in the
Arts. There are images of the artwork plus biographies and profiles, organized by century.
You can search for a particular female artist as well. This is a great comprehensive
resource to use for Women's History Month.
Oudry's Painted Menagerie
http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/oudry/index.html
Jean Baptiste Oudry's Painted Menagerie reunites recently restored paintings with a suite
of other life-size portraits of exotic animals painted by Oudry and presents a selection
of Oudry's drawings as well as contemporary decorative arts. Watch various aspects of the
conservation process in the video. Enlarge paintings and zoom in on details. Play games in
the Getty's Games section.
Paper (Exploratorium Magazine)
http://www.exploratorium.edu/exploring/paper/index.html
The Exploratorium Magazine Online is a companion to selected issues of the print magazine,
providing key articles and activities and including multimedia features. Learn how new
materials, new methods and new ideas are transforming traditional origami. Watch videos of
a master origami folder create his unique pieces. Learn how to make your own paper and how
to fold your own paper airplanes. In Japan, legend says that a person who makes a thousand
origami cranes will live a long life. All the more reason to explore this site!
Picasso and Matisse
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/arts/20030214_MATISSE/index.html
Michael Kimmelman, art critic for The New York Times, narrates a slideshow of the work of
two titans of twentieth-century art, Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. He clearly documents
the friendly rivalry that existed between these two men and makes the case that each
fueled the creative output of the other. You must be a registered user to access the whole
site, but registration is free.
Pigments Through the Ages
http://webexhibits.org/pigments/
A site dedicated to paint and color. It contains an overview of art history and how to
create a painting (Intro, Planning the Scene, Preparing the canvas, Making paint, Paint
picture, Seal the surface, and Other kinds of paint). Use the drop down menu to select
specific pigments and get the history, recipes, and color swatch.
Pixar: 20 Years of Animation
http://www.moma.org/visit_moma/audio/flash.html?folder=2005/spec_exhib/Pixar/files
Today's feature-length computer-aided cartoon films, such as Pixar's "Finding
Nemo," "The Incredibles," and "Monsters, Inc." are wildly popular
and critically acclaimed, but did your students know of all the work that goes into
creating such a film? At this site users can get a "backstage pass" to view the
behind-the-scenes artwork of Pixar's animated films.
Renaissance Connection
http://www.renaissanceconnection.org/
Explore Renaissance visual arts and innovations and their role in the making of the modern
world. Applying research into learning styles and user engagement, this site is a suite of
interactive online activities and resources for middle school students and teachers.
Sand Art
http://lovethosekids.com/playgrnd/sandart.htm
A great site for kids (and teachers) to express their creativity! You can create sand art
pictures using colored sand and then save your creation as a graphic.
Science ART & Technology
http://www.artic.edu/aic/students/sciarttech/2a.html
This site is broken into the categories of Introduction to Science and Art, Art and
Astronomy, The Chemistry and Physics of Light and Color, Perception, Light, and Color,
Conservation, and Careers in Science, Art and Technology. It is brought to you from the
Art Institute of Chicago with Lesson Plans, Student Projects, Self-Guides and more.
Silicon Valley Art Museum: Linking Art and Technology
http://svam.org/
This excellent site from the Silicon Valley Museum links art with technology. The
Exhibition Lobby houses featured exhibits such as "Tradition and Protest," which
shows art as a vehicle of social protest. "Through the Green Fuse" is a
portfolio of unique photographs of flowers and plants. "Remembrance" is a
commemorative work by Asian American artists, and there's more. By clicking to Education
and Art Lessons, students and teachers can access 24 art activities such as
self-portraits, fanfolds, painting with liquid starch and chalk, salt-clay stick puppets,
tube sock dragons, a potato print family, and others, all designed to teach a specific
artistic concept.
Skyscraper Museum: Cool Stuff for Kids
http://www.skyscraper.org/WHAT'S_UP/COOL_STUFF/coolstuff.htm
This is a Kids Learning Center for skyscrapers. There are online activities to help kids
learn about the Tallest Towers, Manhattan Timeformations, Big Buildings, and they can take
a Downtown New York Web Walk.
smART Kids
http://smartmuseum.uchicago.edu/smartkids/index.html
smART Kids helps students, particularly 7 to 12 year olds, look at art, learn art
vocabulary, explore materials, and find out about historic pieces of art. Students can
visit an artist's studio, create art, and are prompted to use a journal to record ideas
and answer questions about art. Created by the education staff at The David and Alfred
Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago.
Spirograph
http://www.wordsmith.org/anu/java/spirograph.html
Remember drawing with a Spirograph? You can now create those drawing online. The way this
applet works is that you modify the sliding bars on the side to whatever you want and this
affects the picture that is displayed. The circle settings control what it looks like and
the color settings control what color your spirograph is. You then have some other options
too. Like, whether you want a light or dark background, line or point and you can also
click the random button to completely randomize the spirograph settings. Have fun!
StoneSoup.com
http://www.stonesoup.com/
Read an online sample of the Stone Soup magazine and highlights from past years. Then
click on Writing and Art to view children's work from around the world.
Tall Buildings (Museum of Modern Art)
http://moma.org/exhibitions/2004/tallbuildings/index_f.html
Tall Buildings presents twenty-five buildings. Each project was designed within the last
decade. Each building views safety, structure, sustainability, and technology. Basic
information and photos provided. A nice introduction to state-of-the-art skyscrapers.
Timeline of Art History
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm
Did you ever wonder how you were possibly going to connect all of that world history? Here
is your answer: a timeline of art history from around the world that is linked in a
chronological and geographical context, from prehistory to the present. The Metropolitan
Museum decided to create a timeline based on its collection to present a great reference
and resource tool for those studying art history and related subjects.
Toy Maker
http://www.thetoymaker.com/
This site has paper cut-outs that you can print in color, cut out, and glue together to
create various toys. Makes a great activity for hand-eye coordination, and practicing with
scissors and glue.
Trompe L'oeil
http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/t/trompeloeil.html
This site provides numerous examples of famous Trompe l'oeil ("Fool the eye")
paintings. Clicking on the title produces a larger image in a separate window. The site
also provides a definition for this French term and hyperlinks to an art glossary which
includes "linear perspective," "perception," and "realism."
Vancouver Art Gallery: Emily Carr
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/EmilyCarr/en/index.php
A fascinating look at the life and career of one of Canada's most respected artists
includes her work and a biography complete with pictures.
Van Gogh at Etten
http://library.thinkquest.org/C001734/
This is a beautiful site devoted to Vincent van Gogh, the Dutch artist, his life and
times: and especially the time he spent in Etten, a small town in the Netherlands. This
excellent site is available in both English and Dutch.
Vincent van Gogh
http://217.170.3.175/vgm/index.jsp
The Van Gogh Museum, which houses the world's largest collection of work by Vincent van
Gogh, has produced this online tour. But, its default language is Dutch, so the first step
is to select English (or any of the five other languages offered). Once that is done,
visitors will have a glimpse into the astonishing life and career of Van Gogh: including a
detailed biography, transcripts of letters, photographs, numerous reproductions, and more.
The museum also collects Western paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints from the
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Vincent van Gogh
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/arts/20051014_VANGOGH_AUDIOSS/blocker.html
Michael Kimmelman, art critic for The New York Times, narrates a walk-through slideshow of
an exhibition of Van Gogh's drawings mounted by New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art
in 2005. The site offers wonderful examples of Van Gogh's landscapes and self-portraits,
with insightful remarks about his artistic genius. Explore an eye-opening appraisal of Van
Gogh's journey from untutored novice to astonishing craftsman.
Watercolors
http://handprint.com/HP/WCL/water.html
A comprehensive resource for watercolorists that includes a clickable index of topics
ranging from biographies and critiques of recognized masters of the art of watercolor to
information on how the eye perceives light, on paper choices, and on watercolor
techniques.
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