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LINKS Connecticut
Department of Education -- Curriculum Connecticut
Art Education Association (CAEA)
Other: Digital Librarian: A directory of online resources, organized by topic. The arts section includes several hundred links to topics such as Africana, Antiques and collectibles, Architecture.... Art Daily: Features museums, artists, auctions, international exhibitions and art fairs, people, photography and more. Also includes art quizzes, anecdotes and myths. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco: Includes over 82,000 images that can be used to create a Virtual Gallery to be shared online. The Education site features "The Poets In the Galleries Program" with poems by students, grades 4-12. Connecticut Commission on the Arts: This site includes an online selection of Connecticut artists, art education programs in CT, public art, a directory of performing artists and teaching artists, organizations, and the arts industry in CT with economic impact reports. African Americans in the Visual Arts: An introduction for students provides information on more than 100 artists, as well as special sections on African influences, Harlem Renaissance, and the WPA. National Gallery of Art: Information on over 100,000 objects. More than 100 "tours" including specific artists, themes, and in-depth studies. Metropolis Magazine: Includes archives of past issues. Global Gallery: Includes searches by artist, style, theme, and a knowledge center that provides a basic introduction to art history. Christie's Auction House: Provides the current month of sales with digital images and an index. Also, a glossary of auction terms as well as information on appraisals, buying and selling. Advanced Book Exchange: This is a cooperative of over 11,000 booksellers worldwide. The Advanced Search can focus on specific titles, publishers, dates of publication, or key words. Art and Culture: This is a cross-disciplinary resource to the world of the contemporary arts including film, literature, music, performing arts, and visual arts. The information is linked together suggesting connections between artists and across disciplines. Ask Art: The free portion of this database contains profiles on more than 27,000 American artists with references to museums, books, and periodicals. For people who like to browse, this site also provides lists of artistic styles, regions of interest, groups of interest, and statistics. These lists include more detailed categories such as women artists, civil war art, cowboy artists, statistics on auction prices such as record price per square inch, most unusual names, and more. Artcyclopedia: Over 1,200 art sites with more than 32,000 links to over 100,000 works by 7,500 artists. Images can be browsed or specifically searched by name, subject, medium, nationality, and style. Includes a specific search for women artists with names listed chronologically. CGFA--Virtual Art Museum: This site, created in 1996 by Carol Gerten-Jackson, contains images of works by more than 1,000 artists. The basic index is alphabetical by name, and there is also an index by nationality and date. Jacob Lawrence Virtual Archive and Education Center: Provides images of over 800 paintings and drawings, a biography, timeline, lists of awards and honors, as well as essays on materials and techniques. Traditional Fine Art Online: Includes Resource Library Magazine with over 5,000 pages of electronic content including digital images featuring American representational art. The Distinguished Artist Series includes an alphabetical index to over 2,500 American painters, sculptors, and photographers. Van Gogh Gallery: This site, endorsed by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, is a complete online catalog of his paintings, watercolors, prints, drawings, and letters. There are 4,023 images on 3,837 pages with search capabilities by title, subject and date. Web Gallery of Art: Virtual museum and searchable database containing over 10,000 images of European painting and sculpture from 1150 to 1800. Searches can be done by artist, title, time period, style, nationality as well as by any word that appears in the descriptive text for each work. Online guided tours are also programmed. Getty Center: For students, parents, and teachers, the "Devices of Wonder" is an online exhibition that explores the ancestors of modern cinema, cyborgs, and other optical devices. Further resources include detailed lesson plans and extensive image galleries on over 100 artists. Kennedy Center: ArtsEdge supports the arts in education through the creative and appropriate uses of technology. Along with current news and resources for teachers, the Kennedy Center features exploring the arts through mini-sites that include African Odyssey, the Harlem Renaissance, Duke Ellington, Marian Anderson, exploring ballet, extremes in music, the cultures of Asia and Latin America, and more. Metropolitan Museum of Art: This special feature of the Metropolitan online presents individual works of art, special exhibitions, overviews of artists' lives and work, and areas of the permanent collection through games, activities, and other online features. It has indexes by subjects, themes, and a timeline. Entire booklets are available for printing including the "Facts Issue", which answers many questions including how many light bulbs the museum orders each year. Museum of Non-Primate Art: Why Cats Paint and Why Paint Cats: The Museum is imagination made visible. "Why Cats Paint" is a collection of various thoughts and opinions. Odyssey: This is a project of the Carlos Museum of Emory University, the Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, and the Dallas Museum of Art. For elementary and middle school students, Odyssey is a journey to explore the ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece, Rome, and the 19th-20th Century sub-Saharan Africa. The teacher resource site include internet tutorials, teaching with the internet, lesson plans, activity ideas, Web sites, books and meeting standards. Smithsonian Institution: The Smithsonian online includes explorations of Art, Science & Nature, History & Culture, and People & Places.
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