Art Directory/Links

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 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 The Indiana State University Art Gallery 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 StoryAt the Tomb of TutankhamenThe Institute of Egyptian Art and ArcheologyTime 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  Egypt then and now Egyptian art and view of Egypt today. Egypt chronology. Mythology 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 Indiana State 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