Information and Art Education
ArtLex - an art dictionary for artists, collectors, students and educators in art production, criticism, history, aesthetics, and education.

ArtsEdge - provides links for students, curriculum ideas, web spotlight sites, and more from the Kennedy Center.

ArtsEdNet - provides ideas and information on K-12 arts education from the J. Paul Getty Trust.

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 Worm - an outstanding site for elementary and middle school students to learn about the concepts of color.

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 Electric Postcard - allows you to send and receive picture postcards on the Internet. The post card rack has many cards from artists and photographers.

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.

Kaleidoscope Painter - an applet that lets you design creative patterns on the screen.

Masks - a 4 2 Explore site that provides information and links about masks.

Mark Kistler's 3-D Drawing Extravaganza! - provides 3-D drawing lessons, the twelve Renaissance words, the twenty-two augmenting art words and lesson plan paper.

Paint Watercolors.com - provides lessons, hints, artists, galleries, and information about watercolors.

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 - site to demonstrate how visual information is used in art, including aspects of depth perception, color perception, and form perception.

Weaving - a 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 - provides information, stories, and pictures about the potters from Oaxaca, Mexico.

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.

Native American Indian Art - a wonderful collection of pictures, definitions, and stories of Native American pottery, sculpture, clothing, beadwork and regalia.

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
The @rt Room - provides a virtual gallery for student art work and ideas for creative works.

CyberKids - a free online magazine with stories and artwork created by students.

Music Education
Classical Net: Quick Composer Reference - provides biographical information about many of the great composers.

Classical Music - provides links and information about music.

Folk Music - provides information and links about folk music and musicians.

Musical Instruments - provides information and links about musical instruments.