Arts Edge -  ARTSEDGE supports the place of arts education at the center of the curriculum through the creative & appropriate uses of technology. ARTSEDGE helps educators to teach in, through & about the arts.

Crayons and Computers

More Art, Better School

American Crafts Council

World of Pottery and Ceramics

Clay Art Listserv

National Council on Education for Ceramic Arts

Grants and Funding

School Grants

General Resources for Art Criticism

From Crizmac: games by Eldon Katter and Mary Erickson

• "Artifacts"
• "Token Response"
• "Artery"
• A game - "Question Arte" - Marilyn Stewart
• "Philosophy and Art"

From Crystal Productions:

• A game - "Articulate", Art Critical Thinking Through all four disciplines
• Posters and slide packets - Visual Thinking Strategies Materials - VTS
• For information on VUE contact www.vue.org and www.vtskids.org

This is a program created through the combined efforts of art educator and consultant, Abigail Housen, and museum educator, Philip Yenawine

An internet subscription website is also available to help students and teachers implement the program

Philip Yenawine's books may be familiar:

The series from the Museum of Modern Art. New York/Delacorte Press

• Line; Shapes; People; Places; and Stories
• How to Look at Modern Art. New York, NY: Abrams. 1991

From Zephyr Press:

• Cura'tor Express

Directly from VUE, Visual Understanding in Education

Various VHS tapes are available with Philip Yenawine and others, working with students in museum settings.

• Visual Thinking Strategies: Building Critical Thinking Through Visual Art - Detroit Institute of Art (11 minutes)

• From other sources:  Museums and bookstores:

• The Chicago Art Institute's Education Center another video is available with Philip Yenawine called "What Do You See?"

• Terry Barrett, Professor of Art Education at The Ohio State University, provides another model of the process of art criticism. His books include

• Criticizing Art: Understanding the Contemporary.

• Criticizing Photographs: An Introduction to Understanding Images, (third edition). Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Co. 2000.

• , editor, Lessons for Teaching Art Criticism. Bloomington, IN:ERIC:ART, the Adjunct Clearinghouse for Art Education at the ERIC Clearinghouse for Social Studies/Social Science Education, 1995.

• While there are certainly other books about art criticism, the references to the writings of only two individuals are provided here. Teachers who have studied the methods of these two individuals can successfully use them in the classroom. Of the two, Yenawine offers the most simplified method.

Textbook - Elementary:

 Portfolios. Barrett Kendall Publishing, Ltd. C 1998 Austin, TX

This textbook series has a poster series which coordinates with the text books, as well as overhead transparencies and CD's of student work. Each unit has an assessment that includes "Write About Art" and "Talk About Art", as well as other guided activities which will be included in next year's plans.  

Newspapers

United States Newspapers - Alphabetical by State & City. Gives you websites or emails ONLY

News-Net - Have to have Newspaper's Name already. Alphabetically lists ALL Newspapers in US. Physical Addresses & Phone #s (prior 2001)

Reflective Writing

 Southwest Educational Development Library

 Technology Assistance Program (TAP)

Action + reflection = Learning

Museums

Ball State Museum of Art

The Indianapolis Museum of Art

The Eiteljorg Museum

Indiana State Museum

Indiana University Art Museum

The Indianapolis Children's Museum

The Interlochen Center for the Arts

MFA Houston Sculpture Tour

Virtual Museums

National Museum of the American Indian

Museum of Indian Arts and Culture

Catalogs Sites

Art Supplies by Utrecht Art

Crizmac Art and Cultural Materials

Dick Blick Art

Sax Arts and Crafts

Sanford - A Lifetime of Color

Publications

School Art

Pottery Making Magazine

Davis Publications

Kids Art

Commercial Sites

Crayola 

Atomic Learning - Tutorials for Software

School Sites

The Art Teacher Connection  

The Art Room 

Elementary Art Education

The Incredible Art Department

Cultural Sites

The Chauvet Caves

Jinta Desert Art

Aboriginal Art & Culture

Aboriginal Art

African Art - Masking

Magical Faces of Africa - exhibit

Wrapped in Pride - African Textiles

Images of Power and Identity

Gyotaku (Fish Prints)

Learn Origami

Japanese Crafts

The Huichol Indians of Mexico

Native American Collections

Tracing the Art of Pueblo Pottery

Eyes on Art

Egypt

Pyramids - The Inside Story At the Tomb of Tutankhamen The Institute of Egyptian Art and Archeology Time Magazines' Secrets of the Lost Tomb  Egypt Civilization - From University of Evansville.  Information about culture, writing and much more.

Egyptian State Information Site  

Art of Egypt- The Cairo Museum

Egyptian Art -An extensive site on Egypt art and history with contemporary art by Richard Deuer.  Excellent educational site- lots to see. Map and tour   Ancient images  Hieroglyphics  Mythology

College Art Departments

Herron School of Art

Ball State University

Purdue University

Indiana University

University of Evansville

Notre Dame

Vincennes University

Image Databases

Artcyclopedia

Olga's Gallery

Art For Kids

Carol Jackson Gerten Fine Arts

images.google.com

The Web Gallery of Art The Web gallery of art is a proprietary  copyrighted site. However, their intent is for students to use the images for educational purposes. The focus is European art, especially Renaissance, with some narrative.

 Smithsonian Museum Archives Image Gallery

http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html/index.html  (a free use resource of images—chiefly architecture with some painting and sculpture. The site is copyrighted but available for educational purposes.)   

http://www.umich.edu/~hartspc/histart/mother/images.html   (a webliography of a variety of sites providing image resources. This is generated by the University of Michigan Art History Dept.

http://www.davidrumsey.com/collections  (Fine art, photography, maps, architecture and other collections of culture represented in Visual Collections. Most of the material is freely available