Art Links

Powerful Websites for Powerful Teaching & Learning

We are always looking for good websites to improve teaching and learning. Know of a good link that could be added to this page? Email it to us & we'll add it!
Lori@linksforlearning.org

Art Resources Through Time
http://staff.edmonds.wednet.edu/users/muzzom/art.html
This site was created for 6th grade students and contains art links for Ancient Egypt, Ancient China, Ancient Greece, Rome, Mesopotamia and the Renaissance.There are also teacher art technique links.

The Artist's Toolkit: Visual elements and principles
http://www.artsconnected.org/toolkit/
This site was created by the Minneapolis Institute of Arts & Walker Art Center & covers visual elements and principles like line, color and shape as tools to build works of art. Students can learn about these concepts with animated movies, create-a-composition activites, videos of professional artists in action, and an in-depth encyclopedia.

The Louvre Museum Official Website
Visit the Louvre in Paris without the plane ticket!
http://www.louvre.fr/louvrea.htm

Webmuseum Paris
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/
This site contains a comprehensive list of artists' biographies and major works of art.

Kinderart
http://www.kinderart.com/
A compilation of art how-to's, lessons and resources.

ArtsEdNet
http://www.getty.edu/artsednet/home.html
The Getty Museum's art education site. Grade level lesson plans, curriculum ideas and art images can be found here.

Art Lesson Plans
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/it/projects/Museums/Teacher_Guide/Art/home.html

Favorite Art Lessons
http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/lessons.html
A compilation of prek-12 art lesson ideas.

K-12 Art Lessons & Web Sites
http://teams.lacoe.edu/documentation/places/lessons.html#art
Multiple resource from Teaches Helping Teachers can be found here.

Smithsonian African Art Museum
http://www.nmafa.si.edu/

Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
http://www.npg.si.edu/

Freer and Sackler Asian Art Galleries
http://www.asia.si.edu/

Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
http://hirshhorn.si.edu/education/resources.asp

Exploratorium
http://www.exploratorium.edu/
The museum of science, art and perception from San Fransisco is here. There are many experiments, resource links, teacher ideas, etc. here