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 ART RESOURCES

New Feature: Connecticut Art Trail: Exploring art in Connecticut Museums is easy using this web site.

 

ART ACCESS
The Art Institute of Chicago has made lesson plans, family activities, and multicultural art resources 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.

ARTCYCLOPEDIA
The Artcyclopedia is an index of online museums and image archives: find out where the works of over 7,500 different fine artists can be viewed online.

 ART IMAGES
The Minneapolis College of Art and Design presents images that may be downloaded for educational use. Large art history database of images.

 ARTLEX
ArtLex is a visual dictionary of art.

 CGFA FINE ART
One of the best searchable indexes to reproductions of artists' works.

Picturing America
Project from the National Endowment for the Humanities that teaches about American art and culture.

 VOICE OF THE SHUTTLE
Web site  for humanities research that includes links to Art and Art History.

Teaching and Learning about Art

ART HOT LIST
Great set of links from the Franklin Institute that includes: artists, museums, and teacher resources.

ART SITES FOR EDUCATORS
Well organized list of sites for arts educators.

ARTSOURCES
Gateway to art resources.  A gathering point for networked resources on Art and Architecture.  Diverse content includes links to resources around the Net.

ArtsConnectEd
A portnership between the Minneapolis institue of the Arts and the Walker Art Center.  Pages include activities for kids and resources of teachers.

ArtsEdNet
This online service is developed by the Getty Educational Institute for the Arts and supports the K-12 arts community. See "Web Gateway" for list of links.

ArtsEdge at the Kennedy Center
ArtsEdge supports the arts in education throught the creative and appropriate uses of technology.

ArtThink SFMOMA
Teaching and learning pages from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.  See especially the link to art basics.

EYES ON ART
Eyes on art has been on the Web since 1995, but has recently been revised. Teaches about the visual arts.

San Francisco Museums of Art: Educator Resources
See multimedia resources links on this page designed to prepare students for looking carefully at art and uncovering the cultural traditions represented by three key works from the de Young’s collection.   See also: right side bar under "Teacher's Guides" see American Art for online exhibition.  

Other Area Museums 

Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Norman Rockwell Museum
Springfield Museums
Wadsworth Atheneum

Notable Museums with pages for teachers and students
National Gallery of Art
Our national museum of art in Washington, D. C. offers an online tour and a page for kids.

Smithsonian Institution

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

YAHOO: ART INDEXES
YAHOO: MUSEUMS, GALLERIES, AND CENTERS
Yahoo offers a lengthy list of Museums and Galleries.
 
 
 

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