Art Resource Websites:
- National Art Education Association (NAEA): This is the official website of the NAEA for art educators. The site provides teachers with convention news, events, and how to gain NAEA membership. It contains research about the impact of art across several disciplines, lesson plans, and resources for professional development.
- Virginia Art Education Association (VAEA): This is the official site of the VAEA, a state division of the NAEA. The site provides art educators with information on the year's convention, access to the most current newsletter, and information on how to gain membership. It also provides information about Youth Art Month, employment opportunities, and a list of links to teacher resources.
- Artsonia: Artsonia is an online student art museum, where students and teachers can create their own online art gallery. The student artwork can be viewed by grade level, medium, or school. Art teachers can make a gallery for each of their classes. Student art pieces are chosen weekly by grade level to be an artist of the week.
- Crayola for Educators: This website is a sub-page under the official Crayola site. It is an interactive site that allows the viewer to compose their own digital drawings and access craft or art project ideas. The site also offers printable coloring pages, links for educators with access to lesson plans for early childhood to twelfth grade, international art show links, and links for parents or educators about children's artistic and cognitive development.
- Bomomo: This interactive website allows the user to create abstract drawings digitally with a series of tools, patterns, and techniques. Images can be saved or printed. This site would be great to use in conjunction with a SmartBoard.
- Jackson Pollock.org: This is an interactive website that allows the user to create a mess free Jackson Pollock on their computer screen. This another website that would lend itself well to a lesson using a SmartBoard. By moving the mouse across the screen paint will "splatter" across the blank canvas. By clicking once, the color of the paint will change and the image you create can be printed once done.
- SumoPaint: This site is similar to Photoshop, allowing users to alter images digitally with a series of editing tools. The site is a free resource, but the user can upgrade to SumoPaintPro with a subscription.
- Mondrimat: This website is an interactive program that engages users by having them experiment with space and color in the style of De Stjil artist Piet Mondrian. Students can use this resource to complete a piece that is unique by altering the weight of line, color, and shapes, within their digital work.
- ArtStor: This website is a digital library of images that can be applied to a variety of subject areas to be used for personal or educational use, specifically for art history, art, the sciences, and architecture. Images can be grouped based on the subscriber's preferences and needs. Within the library, users can search, sort, view, and organize images into categories that can then be downloaded into different presentation forums. Users can also upload their own personal images to be archived.
- Arts Everyday: This website provides a variety of resources for arts integration, with a focus on professional development for art teachers. It includes discussion boards and research papers regarding integrating arts into the curriculum and student learning in conjunction with the arts. A specific section of the site is set aside for teaching artists and opportunities for professional development. There are also resources for parents regarding how to promote the arts in schools and at home.
- National Endowment for the Arts: This is the official website for the federal agency that has provided over four million dollars to date, in arts education. The site contains information on applying for grants, publishing research on art's value in American culture, and employment in art in schools. It also contains links to resources for teachers about the arts in healthcare, organizations that assist students with disabilities accessible media, and funding opportunities for art endowments.
- Artcyclopedia: This website is an advanced search engine that allows the user to look up a specific artist, artistic movement, art museum, or titled work. It includes a calendar of famous art historic events that apply to the current day the user visits the site, art news from around the world, an online discussion forum called ArtConversation, and slideshows about major movements and artists related to historical contexts and developments.
- ArtsConnected: This website was developped by Minneapolis Institute of the Arts and the Walker Center for the Arts. It consists of a database titled "Art Finder," that allows users to search for works of art, videos, texts, interactive resources and art collector sets that relate to collections within a museum. Users can take pieces from the "Art Finder" database and categorize them into groups that are then organized into a customized presentation called "sets."
- Art History: A Preliminary Handbook: This website, a part of the University of British Columbia's creative studies page, includes a series of links that can be used by students to better understand how to write art history papers, evaluate works of art, improve their questioning skills about artwork, and understand the meaning of form, content, and context. Under the link "Beginning the Assignment," users can find a list of defined vocabulary including color, line, shape, medium, texture, space, etc. that will help them begin to look for the right discussion points in a piece of art orally or in writing.
- Odyssey Online: This website was developed within the art history department at Emory University, that focuses on assisting teachers planning to educate their students about ancient art in the ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece, Rome, and Africa. There are links to each region including a series of subtopics: People, Mythology, Daily Life, Death and Burial, Writing, and Archaeology. Each topic is explained in the context of their role in the art of that particular region and time period.
- Artists Network: This website is dedicated to informing users about supplies and the techniques that apply to them. It includes a series of publications that art educators can use in the classroom for materials or lesson plan ideas as well as articles about materials, tools, and mediums. The site also contains links to artist blogs, artist videos, subscriptions to major art material suppliers, and forums that are dedicated to individual mediums and the way that they can be used together or independently of one another for projects.
- World's Artist Directory: This website is a great resource for teachers and students. It offers teachers tutorials, forums, and art world news. There are also critiques, and art quizzes for teacher use.
- Davis Art: This is School Art's Magazine's online site sponsored by Davis Arts. The website offers articles from the most current issue as well as links to other teacher resources. Davis Art is also a company that publishes a variety of art textbooks like The Visual Experience and Discovering Drawing.
- Art Education 2.0: Art Education 2.0 is a social network site for art educators. The mission of the networking site is to connect art educators around the globe. Teachers are able to join this learning community through the use of a Ning account, where they can participate in blogs and group forums.
- Art and Activities: This is the official website for Arts and Activities magazine, an art education magazine. The site offers teachers a way to back order issues of the magazine. It provides teachers with project ideas, links to other resource sites, and bonus material that was not published in the magazine.
- Dick Blick: This is the official website for Dick Blick, an art supply company. It gives information on products the site offers and also has resources for educators, as well as professional artists. The site offers teachers lesson plan ideas that include a materials list, current teacher news, educational forums, and school discounts on products.