Art Directory

Art Advocacy	Grants/Funding
Art Criticism	Cultural Sites
College Art Departments	School Sites
Publications	Museums
Commercial Sites	Image Databases

Art Advocacy

American for the Arts -A principal, national arts advocacy & service org. & a source of information for advancing the arts & arts education.

Arts Education Partnership - A national coalition of arts, education, business, philanthropic & government organizations that demonstrates & promotes the essential role of the arts in the learning & development of every child & in the improvement of America's schools.

Charity Lobbying in the Public Interest - A principal advocacy org. dedicated to educating charities about the important role lobbying can play in achieving their missions.

Indiana Arts

Indiana Department of Education

Who's Your Legislator

Indiana Professional Standards Board

National Art Education Association

National Endowment for the Arts

National Board for Professional Teaching Standards

Getty Arts EdNet

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 Schools

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

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

Egypt then and now Egyptian art and view of Egypt today. Egypt chronology.

PBS-Nova Online takes you on a tour of the pyramids. Travel the passage ways. Go on and explore!

Learn about the great pyramids. See some of the temples of ancient Egypt. Good source of Internet links.

Educational site about Egypt. Extensive information--from the Canadian Museum of Civilizations.

World Art Treasures Slide collection of art form Egypt, China, Japan, India, and Europe

Egypt Lesson Plans and Units

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