Our Favorite Art Education Sites

Art activities, resources, opinions, lesson plans, you name it! If your favorite art education website is not on this list, please, send it to the webmistress!

We are selective and attempt to include resources and businesses that have free resources for art educators and their students. We also include links to businesses who advertise with us. If you have a commercial link and would like to advertise on artedia.org, please contact marketing@artedia.org.

"Art is a deception that creates real emotions — a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.” (Marco Tempest)

Link	Description
4Kids.org	Art and Music activities
Art & Learning to Think & Feel	Marvin Bartels' Art Education Page: "Dedicated to Leaving No Mind Behind"
Art and Music Interactive Sites	Utah Teachers' Favorite links
Art Education 2.0	A website for networking--Using New Technology in Art Classrooms.
Art of the Week	Email campaign to promote art in all of its diversity. To receive the weekly emails, please email your request to aseem888@gmail.com.
@rt junction	A safe and structured virtual environment within which teachers and students can pursue artistic and educational goals
Art Sparker	An idea that excites the synaptic nerves in your brain and stirs your imagination
ArtPoints.net	Essays about art and art education, events, and art links sponsored by Camlin Artists' Materials. Features student art and art societies across the country.Sign up for their eNewsletter.
Artsconnected	A joint project of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and Walker Art Center. Create a presentation using artworks from these two museums.
The Artist's Toolkit	Explore how artists use line, color and balance. Interactive.
Artist's Statement	Molly Gordon's "How to write your Artist's Statement"
Arts Education Partnership: Iowa Database	Searchable database concerning arts education in various states. Use the Report Generator to find information about the state of Iowa.
The Art Zone	Interactive Online Art Making for kids and adults, sponsored by the National Gallery of Art
@Issue	Journal of Business and Design is dedicated to communicating how quality design contributes to business success--exciting examples of art and design today!
	Dick Blick is an AEI sponsor. The Best Art Supplies ...at the best discounts! Since 1911, artists have turned to Blick for dependable savings, a huge selection, and fine customer service on art supplies.
Balance Video	An example of Alexander Calder's balance technique
Bloom's Taxonomy including digital language	A curriculum writing tool
Cakes	Produce Wayne Thiebaud style cakes online
Calligraphy	See the new St. John's Bible
Cardboard Sculptures by Chris Gilmour	Amazing realism
Creative Classroom	Listing of sites, information and lesson plans
CREO	is a visual culture magazine with activities that you and your students can do
Crayola	Activities for classes or individuals, calendar, new products.
	College of Visual Arts is an AEI Sponsor. The College of Visual Arts is a private, accredited, four-year college of art and design offering a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in fashion design, fine arts, graphic design, illustration, and photography.
Design a Still Life	An interactive site from National Gallery. Fun! (webmaster: This site didn't work with my new Snow Leopard OS.)
D.U.C.	Distribution of free contemporary art books
edutopia	The George Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF) was founded in 1991 as a nonprofit operating foundation to celebrate and encourage innovation in schools. They publish the stories of innovative teaching and learning through a variety of media -- a magazine, e-newsletters, DVDs, books, and this Web site
Essential Skills	A Prezi with all of the essentials... by Lynn McCartney
Effect Of Colors	ScienceDaily, Feb, 2009: Blue Boosts Creativity, While Red Enhances Attention To Detail
Free Resources	.gov site for educational excellence
Frida Kahlo	Interactive from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Games for the Brain	Features games with a visual emphasis
Google Art Project	Visit Famous art works in world-famous museums, virtually.
Google Sketchup	Downloadable 3D drawing program
Haring Kids	Activity pages based on work of Keith Haring
Incredible Art Lessons	Lesson plans, sharing, lessons for individuals
International Society for Education through Art (InSEA)	View the ChildArt Collective. By providing a directory of children’s art collections from around the world, art educators, museum and gallery directors, researchers, parents, and children, are able to learn from, and contribute to, an international community of child art collectives.
Iowa Pathways	Timeline of history of artists in Iowa
Iowa Museums and Galleries	An extensive list with links from the Iowa Arts Council
Jackson Pollock	It will look like absolutely nothing, but just start to move your cursor over the screen (left click to change colors) reload to start over.
The Knowledge Loom	Educators Sharing and Learning Together. A source of information about Teaching Artistic Behaviors and Choice-Based Art Education.
Lascaux	Take your students for a walk through the caves, virtually
The Memory Project	Your secondary students produce a portrait painting of a child living in an orphanage around the world as a service project
Met's Interactives for Kids	Metropolitan Museum of Art

Morphing Presidents	From Washington to Obama
Mr. Picasso Head	Use Picasso-style parts to create a portrait and email it to someone
Mystudio Gallery	Famous Paintings, artist research links, or buy posters
New Art Basics	A collection of strategies was written by participants in the Iowa State University New Art Basics Project 1986-2006. During 2009, Barbara Caldwell and her assistants at Iowa State revised and updated the website. The interactive database allows searching by art media, concept, etc.
New Face of Art	Thanks to a soft drink company, you and your students can see world famous new artists and their work. You can also use fun type-face to create a message
Not on the Test	Tom Chapin's song about NCLB
Origami Fun	Directions (video or printed) for Students or Teachers
Origami Master Won Park	He makes origami. See a video interview. He does NOT live in a garbage truck.
PBS Arts Teachers	Listed by grade. Also see PBS News Hour Archives: The Visual Arts
Pixlr	Free online photo editior.
Podsafe Audio	Copyright free music for your students' video projects
Prezi	Create astonishing presentations online or live
iRubric	Free rubric maker also you can browse other rubrics that are public and share your rubrics with others
Rubistar	Create a rubric or modify an existing one
Sand Sculpture	How To plus Beautiful Examples. A Kid's Corner, too
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators	Index of Art and Architecture sites on Discovery Education
Smarthistory	An online art history book with using multimedia (much more interesting than that old Janson book from your college days)
Smithsonian	Art and Design Lesson Plans
Snow Days	Create a unique snowflake online
Snowflake Cutting	Easy enough for the youngest computer users to Make-a-flake
Sanford-ArtEdventures	For creative individuals, beginner to advanced
Spiral Art Education	Cool Curriculum from Olivia Gude. Mostly secondary projects fostering community and self-valuing
Teaching for Artistic Behavior	A way of life in the art room! Try it! TAB: Choice Based Art Education fosters "Thinking like an Artist!"
TED: Ideas Worth Spreading	This is the result of a search for "art." Speakers give the "talk of their lives" in less than 18 minutes.
Teachers First: Art	"Thinking teachers teach thinking." 700 creative activities
Through the Flowers	Judy Chicago's (The Dinner Party) website whose mission is to educate a broad public about the importance of art and its power in countering the erasure of women's achievements.
Vincent Van Gogh	The Van Gogh site is a reference for information on the life and work of Vincent van Gogh including his biography, an interactive catalog of his paintings, drawings, sketches, watercolors.
The Van Gogh Games	Put together an online puzzle, then add stars to the Starry, Starry Night by answering the quiz questions correctly.
Visual Arts in Iowa Core	Like 21st Century Skills, the Universal Constructs are integral to the teaching of Core content; and the Visual Arts are the perfect venue for the development of these skills and processes.
United States Society for Education Through Art (USSEA)	To provide a network with art educators who wish to share their interests in multicultural and cross-cultural concerns relevant to the field of art education. The organization shall encourage cross-cultural research and professional relationships to promote greater understanding and respect for learners from diverse backgrounds.
Web 2.0	Weekly Challenge Activities to challenge artists of all ages
Iowa West Foundation	Art and artist support programs funded for Western Iowa, Council Bluffs region

New Online Word Image Program

This free program may have been made for art teachers: Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters (In this example, this webpage...)-- into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.

You can save the image as a png for websites or jpg for presentations or printing.

Take Your Students to France...

Animals in the Lascaux Caves

Virtually, of course. It is a free trip to walk through the actual caves at Lascaux. There are maps and close up images. Use Google Translate if your French is a little rusty.