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Information and Art Education

ArtLex
An art dictionary for artists, collectors, students and educators in art production, criticism, history, aesthetics, and education.
ArtsEdNet
Provides ideas and information on K-12 arts education from the J. Paul Getty Trust.
ArtsEdge
Provides links for students, curriculum ideas, web spotlight sites, and more from the Kennedy Center.
Architecture and Interior Design for 20th Century America
Provides a collection of over 29,000 photographs taken from 1935-1955 in the northeastern US.
Art Resources
Provides numerous links to educational art sites.
ArtsWork: Arts Resources for Teachers and Student
Provides links to education materials for visual arts, dance, music, and drama/theater.
Blue Web'n Art Sites
A wide variety of sites related to art education. The site includes a search engine to narrow by grade level.
Color
A 4 2 Explore site that provides numerous links to sites that deal with teaching about the concept of color.
Color Matters
Provides information about basic color theory: primary, secondary, tertiary, color harmony, and color schemes are all covered.
Crayola Art Education
Provides ideas, techniques, and lessons.
Drawing
A 4 2 Explore site that provides information and links about drawing techniques.
Eduhound Art Education Sites
Provides links to sites about art history, artists, ceramics, painting, drawing, and more.
The Incredible Art Department
Inside Art: An Art History Game
Provides interactive lessons on art history.
Jasper's Guide to Paperfolding Instructions
Provides folding instructions and photographs of how to fold the paper to make simple models, low-intermediate models, intermediate box, and high-intermediate models.
Masks
A 4 2 Explore site that provides information and links about masks.
National Gallery of Art - Kids
PaperMaking
A 4 2 Explore site that provides information and links about paper and papermaking.
Perspective Drawing
Presents a description about perspective with graphic examples, and provides links to artists' works that have perspective.
Photography
A 4 2 Explore site that provides information and links about photography.
Pottery
A 4 2 Explore site that provides information and links about pottery.
Sanfords' ArtEdventures
Provides ideas and examples about creating and studying art. Check out the ArtEdventure under the Play Art Games category and play the interactive games as you learn about art concepts.
Sculpture
A 4 2 Explore site that provides information and links about sculpture.
Vision and Art
A site to demonstrate how visual information is used in art, including aspects of depth perception, color perception, and form perception.
Weaving
4 2 Explore site that provides information and links about weaving.

Museums and Collections
Africa: The Art of a Continent
An on-line exhibition of African artwork sponsored by the Guggenheim Museum. The exhibition ranges from the tools and rock art of early humans to objects created in the 20th century. Students can click on a map of Africa to read and see about the art in that area.
EXPO Ticket Office (Museum Tours)
Provides free tours to six major Internet exhibits.
Fine Art Museums of San Francisco
Allows users to search the complete collections of fine arts museums in San Francisco.
Manos de Oaxaca
Allows users to search the complete collections of fine arts museums in San Francisco.
Michelangelo
Students can learn about the life and work of Michelangelo Buonarroti.
Metropolitan Museum of Art Online Collections
Contains 3,500 images from over 20 departments. It provides a timeline of art history, period tours, director's tour and much more.
Museum Computer Network
Provides links to a large number of museums all over the world, with links to museums in Africa and Middle East, Asia, Europe, South America, Antarctica, Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania, and North America.
Museums in the USA
Provides an alphabetical list of online museums in the United States. In addition you can search by name, type, or state.
Sistine Chapel
A virtual tour of the Sistine Chapel with more than 325 images of the chapel.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Provides hundreds of images and virtual exhibits from this museum and includes some Real Audio introductions.
Time Life Photo Sight
A series of photographs and photo essays from Time magazines photo collection.
WebMuseum, Paris
Provides links to special art exhibits and a link to famous paintings that can be explored from an artist index or by themes ranging from Gothic paintings to 20th century art. The site has text and images about the artist and their work.
World Art Treasures
Provides links to art from Egypt, China, Japan, India, and Europe.
Student Publishing
CyberKids
A free online magazine with stories and artwork created by students.
Music
Classical Net: Quick Composer Reference

Provides biographical information about many of the great composers.
Classical Music
A 4 2 Explore lesson that provides links and information about music.
Folk Music
Provides information and links about folk music and musicians.
Jazz at the Smithsonian
Provides video, audio clips and lesson ideas (look under Jazz Class and talks about Jazz Appreciation Month and list 112 ways to celebrate jazz.
Musical Instruments
Provides information and links about musical instruments.
Musictheory.net
An interactive website with music theory tutorials for students that include lessons on staff, clef, and ledger lines; note duration; measure and time signatures; rest duration; dots and ties; simple and compound meter; odd meter; steps and accidentals and more. In addition, a chord calculator, staff paper generator, and matrix generator are available for online use.
New York Philharmonic Kidzone
A site that includes: Musician's Lounge, Composers' Gallery, Instrument Storage Room, Instrument Laboratory, Conductor/Soloist Dressing Rooms, Newsstand, Games, and Composer's Workshop. Students get to experiment with interactive instruments, compose music, create instruments online and learn about composers and musicians.
WholeNote - The On-Line Guitar Community
Provides guitar lessons with notation and customizable music playback for all skill levels and styles and provides tools to help you build your own lessons.
Accordian Dreams
Provides information about Conjunto a unique Texas-based Mexican American music tradition born in the 19th century that continues to evolve and thrive today.
Piano on the Net
Provides over forty lessons that are divided into Starter, Intermediate, and Advanced categories.
San Francisco Symphony Kids' Site
Provides information on the Instruments of the orchestra and an introduction to reading music.
Songs for Teaching
Provides research about music in the classroom, as well as ideas for songs by discipline.
K-12 Resources For Music Educators
Provides links for band, orchestra, choral, and other music teachers.