Featured Regional Artists

Carol Adams — Lamp

Mary Kay D'Isa Prints — View Mary Kay D'Isa's prints and background.

W. Logan Fry — Cyber-Textiles

Rhonda Mitchell — Houghton Mifflin: Meet the Author/Illustrator

Featured Artists

Thomas Hart Benton on the Internet — American Regionalist Painter, 1899 - 1975.

Rafael Ferrer — El Sol Asombra, Butler Institute of American Art.

Al Hirschfeld — The Margo Feiden Galleries Ltd. Featuring the art of Al Hirschfeld.

American Masters - Al Hirschfeld — PBS American Masters: information and video clip on Al Hirschfeld.

Paul Jenkins — Samples of Jenkins' work.

Paul Jenkins, Side of St. George — Butler Institute of American Art.

Don Reitz Galleries

John Sokol WebSite 

The Andy Warhol Museum — One of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh.

Andy Warhol — Butler Institute of American Art

Andy Warhol — PBS American Masters Series

Andy Warhol - Liz 

Featured Museums

Akron Art Museum — Home page for Akron Art Museum.

The Butler Institute of American Art — "America's Museum" - main location in Youngstown. Access all locations from this web site.

Canton Museum of Art — Canton Museum of Art home page.

Technical Resources

A. Pintura: Art Detective — An online 'game' about art history and art composition (4th grade up).

art:21 — Twenty-one artists who are defining the visual arts for a new millennium discuss their life, their work, and their vision in Art:21 - Art in the Twenty-First Century, a four-part series premiering Fall 2001 on PBS. The first broadcast series to focus exclusively on contemporary visual art and artists in the United States, Art:21 offers a unique glimpse into 21 artists' personal experiences, sources of inspiration, and creative processes. Three of the artists are from Ohio.

Art Education and ArtEdventures from Sanford and A Lifetime of Color — "Art products and resources for creative individuals from beginner to advanced." Site contains Create Art, Study Art, Play Art Games, Teach Art. Study Art includes: an art timeline; art elements, principles and concepts; media information; style information; and information on specific artists.

ArtLex on Abstract Expressionism — Site explains abstract expressionism, defines terms and shows artist examples.

Art Studio Chalkboard: Information for artists and students — "These pages are a resource for artists and art students that focus on the technical fundamentals of perspective, shading, color and painting. They were compiled and designed by Ralph Larmann, art faculty member in the University of Evansville Art Department, and are intended for educational use only."

Arts Workshop: Sculpture — From the Children's Museum of Indianapolis, this site covers what sculptors do, what materials they use, what sculptures do….

Celebrity Caricature in America From an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.

Children's Literature Web Guide — Authors and Illustrators on the Web.

Create Your own Adinkra Cloth — (PBS) Ashanti Symbols

Eyes on Art: A Learning to Look Curriculum — Teacher's Guide to the New Eyes on Art.

Inside Art: an Art History Game — About Vincent Van Gogh, this art history game includes learning about "art history, art aesthetics, and aesthetic scanning."

Leonardo Home Page — Lessons on perspective.

The Power of Color — Color, Contrast and Dimension in News Design - an interactive color experience. Explains color theory and shows how to use it in design through examples and exercises.

Online Magazines (E-Zines for Artists)

ArtsJournal.com — Daily Digest of Arts and Cultural Journalism

Pottery Making Illustrated 

Internet ArtResources — "Every day new gallery, artist and museum listings are added and updated. New articles, reviews and news items are being added each week."

General Resource Portals

Art Kids Rule! — Activities, Resources and Tutorials

Art Links on the World Wide Web — Over 1200 links to art resources

Art Teacher on the Net: Free Art Ideas for Kids, Parents, and Teachers — Web page is from 2000, but contains lessons, art history, projects, supplies, etc.

ArtsConnectEd — Arts curriculum and galleries. "ArtsConnectEd is the product of a partnership between The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Walker Art Center, and MCI. Using the power of the Internet to stimulate new approaches to learning, the goal of ArtsConnectEd is to make arts education timely, engaging, interactive, and pertinent for both teachers and students of all ages.

Artslynx International Visual Arts Resources — Library of online visual arts resources.

Arts Wire — Online Community for the Arts — SpiderSchool covers how to integrate technology into the arts. Contains annotated links to web-based arts and education projects.

BJ Pinchbeck's Homework Helper: Art — Links to galleries, artists and art history resources.

Color, Contrast & Dimension in News Design — Interactive color experience - an online guide explaining color theory

Crayola — Educator Features (lesson plans, techniques…)

Education World: Visual & Performance Arts Center — Includes Tools, Lesson Planning, Themes, and Standards for Drawing & Painting, Art in 3 Dimensions, and Photography & Computer Art. The Tools refer to technique, related sites, exhibits, projects, and interdisciplinary.

EDSITEment — From National Endowment for the Humanities, contains humanities websites and lesson plans.

The Incredible Art Department — Lessons broken down by grade level. Bountiful resources.

KinderArt — MANY art lessons.

Mark Harden's Artchive: Links — Three section of links: Museums, Artists, and Resources.

Mid-Continent Resource for Education and Learning, Hotlinks by Subject — MCREL Lesson Plan Library - The Arts.

NGA Kids — National Gallery of Art for kids: Adventures with Art - Activities and Projects, Teacher Resources, Exploring Themes in American Art.

Sanford: A Lifetime of Color Art — Products and Resources from Beginner to Advanced.

Teach-nology: The Web Portal for Educators! (Arts & Humanities) — Huge list of arts and humanities sites to use with students.

teachnet.com — Art Lesson Plans.

Voice of the Shuttle: Art and Art History Page — Many resources.

World Wide Arts Resources — Artists, museums, art history, art education, search the arts….

Art History

Art and Art History Sources — Directories of art and art history journals, catalogs, additional starting points.

Art History for Kids, Grades K-4 — "The Art History Teacher on the Net will show you how to look at art through a series of art clues. You will be an Art Detective and travel to some of the major museums of the world searching for famous art works."

Art Historians' Guide to the Movies — Interesting method for making art 'real'; however, look over whatever portion of the site you use before you send students to the site.

Art & Humanities Homepage — Site for Gardner's Art through the Ages textbook (now owned by Wadsworth) contains student and teacher resources.

AskERIC Lesson Plans: Arts: Art History — Lesson Plans for art; grade level identified.

Eduweb: Adventures — Interactive Art and Art History adventures.

Impressionism — Teach Impressionism or take a guided tour of Impressionism. Includes lessons and transparencies as well as an interactive guided tour.

Inside Art: an Art History Game — About Vincent Van Gogh, this art history game includes learning about "art history, art aesthetics, and aesthetic scanning."

Mother of All Art History Links

Study Art: Timeline of Art — Links times, civilizations, styles, media and artists to other Sanford sites for additional information.

Timeline of Art History - The Metropolitan Museum of Art — The Ancient World.

Voice of the Shuttle: Art and Art History Page — Many resources.

Sites for Parents

A. Pintura: Art Detective — An online 'game' about art history and art composition (4th grade up).

Art Education and ArtEdventures from Sanford and A Lifetime of Color — "Art products and resources for creative individuals from beginner to advanced." Sections include: Create Art, Study Art, Play Art Games, Teach Art.

Art Kids Rule! — Activities, Resources and Tutorials.

Art History Resources on the Web — Huge list of links.

The Art Room, Grades 5-8 — "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 art room is a place for kids to explore their inner and outer worlds."

Art Teacher on the Net: Free Art deas for Kids, Parents, and Teachers — Web page is from 2000, but contains lessons, art history, projects, supplies, etc.

Crayola — Activities for parents and teachers to use with students, Grades K-4.

Early American Paintings — Timeline.

Eduweb: Adventures — Interactive Art and Art History adventures.

Haring Kids art site, Grades K-4 — Interactive coloring, art puzzles and games.

Inside Art: an Art History Game — About Vincent Van Gogh, this art history game includes learning about "art history, art aethetics, and aesthetic scanning."

Mother of All Art History Links

Timeline of Art History - The Metropolitan Museum of Art — The Ancient World.

Art Organizations

American for the Arts: Arts Education — "AMERICANS FOR THE ARTS is the nation's leading arts information clearinghouse, with a 40-year record of objective arts industry research. As the preeminent arts advocacy organization, it is dedicated to representing and serving local communities and creating opportunities for every American to participate in and appreciate all forms of the arts."

C.A.R.T.S. — Cultural Arts Resources for Teachers and Students - "virtual extension of City Lore's educational programs and its National Network for Folk Art in Education."

Fine Arts Council of Trumbull County, Ohio 

ICAF — International Child Art Foundation

National Art Education Association (NAEA) — NAEA is a non-profit, educational organization founded "to promote art education through Professional Development, Service, Advancement of Knowledge, and Leadership."

National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA) 

The National Cartoonists Society 

The Northern Ohio Illustrator's Society (NOIS): Member Portfolios — "NOIS meetings occur once per month. In general, outside speakers give a presentation at the CIA on alternate months; these meetings are open to the public and are FREE." 46 artists are represented including Laurel Winters.

Ohio Art Education Association — Mission is to "…advance and support quality art education through professional development, leadership, service, advocacy, and education…."

The Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators (SCBWI) — "The only professional organization dedicated to serving the people who write, illustrate, or share a vital interest in children's literature."

Museums

The Art Institute of Chicago: Art Access — includes a variety of online resources to educators, parents, students, and young people.

ArtsConnectEd — Educational materials from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

ArtsEdge (The Kennedy Center) — ARTSEDGE supports the place of arts education at the center of the curriculum through the creative and appropriate uses of technology. ARTSEDGE helps educators to teach in, through and about the arts. Includes standards-based curriculum and professional resources.

The Cleveland Museum of Art — Education and Research section — see particularly the distance learning piece.

The Detroit Institute of Arts — Collection and lesson plans.

The Getty Museum — Explore the Getty art collections and exhibitions.

Guggenheim Museum — Collection.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art — Contains the Museum's collection, Explore & Learn, Educational Resources, Timeline of Art History, new Virtual Reality tour featuring American period.

Microsoft Art Collection Home — Works in Microsoft's collection of modern art.

The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York — Educational resources.

MuseumSpot — Museums linked to by specialty, location, artist.

MuseumStuff.com — Links to museums.

National Gallery of Art: National Directory of Teacher Programs and Resources in Art Museums — Search by state or by topic.

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art — Located in Kansas City, Missouri. See the “Tempus Fugit: Time Flies” online exhibition.

NGA Kids — National Gallery of Art for kids: Adventures with Art - Activities and Projects, Teacher Resources, Exploring Themes in American Art.

Smithsonian American Art Museum 

Web Gallery of Art — Listed in the BBC Education Web Guide. The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1150-1750), currently containing over 8,000 reproductions."

WebMuseum, Paris — Has famous paintings section.

Reference Works

Art and Art History Sources — Directories of art and art history journals, catalogs, additional starting points.

Art and Culture — “Interconnected guide to the arts” includes design and visual arts.

Artcyclopedia: The Fine Art Search Engine — Search artists by name, works by title, art museums by name or place; search database by movement, medium, subject, nationality, name.

Art History Resources on the Web — Huge list of links.

ArtLex: a dictionary of visual art — Art dictionary “for artists, students and educators in art production, criticism, history, aesthetics, and education”

the-artists org — Information on major 20th century and contemporary visual artists: search artists by name, art movement, style, or medium.

ArtSource — ArtSource was created by an art librarian as a guide to art on the Internet.

AskART.com — “Artists Bluebook, American Artist Reference” artist profiles, image gallery, biographies, museums….

BigEye — Visual Arts Center — Visual Arts Resources on the Internet.

Impressionism — Teach Impressionism or take a guided tour of Impressionism. Includes lessons and transparencies as well as an interactive guided tour.

Leonardo Home Page — “Explore this site and learn about this fascinating scientist inventor, and artist.” Lessons on perspective.

Mark Harden's Artchive: Links — Three section of links: Museums, Artists, and Resources.

MuseumSpot — Museums linked to by specialty, location, artist.

National Gallery of Art: National Directory of Teacher Programs and Resources in Art Museums — Search by state or by topic.

Restoration Online — How a masterwork is restored

Web Gallery of Art — Listed in the BBC Education Web Guide. “The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1150-1750), currently containing over 8,000 reproductions.”

World Artist Directory — Search for art form, location, artist, keyword.

World Wide Arts Resources — Artists, museums, art history, art education, search the arts….