Description:ArtEdventures are interactive online games for teachers and students. In these fun and educational activities, you'll discover how great artists made their famous works—while learning tips and techniques for creating your own art! For example in Carmine's Landscape Adventure, you learn about the different elements of a landscape painting and then create your own landscapes from Carmine's selections. You can be an architect, learn about color theory with Dr. Gray and his dechromatizers, visit Leonardo's workshop and much more. Each activity includes teacher resources and hands on activities to supplement them.
Description:Several online art tours including Looking at Art in Ancient Greece and Rome and the forum of Trajan in Rome. The site also includes lesson plans and curriculum; most centering on contemporary and multicultural themes.
Description:Sponsored by the Kennedy Center and the National Endowment for the Arts, the most valuable areas of this site are its lessons plans in the Curriculum Studio and the Web Spotlight with links to a variety of arts websites.
|Free Online Art Lessons at KlineCreative.com
Description:Learn how to draw online with free art lessons for children and adults from professional instructor John C. Kline.
|Inside Art: An Art History Game
Description:A choose your own adventure type story that finds the reader trapped inside a painting that he must explore and then answer questions correctly to escape.
|Making Sense of Modern Art
Description:This program of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art offers an extensive and engaging guide to modern and contemporary works in the Museum's permanent collection. Its rich-media format enables you to "zoom in" on full-screen details of individual artworks, explore excerpts from archival videos and films, and listen to commentary by artists, art historians, critics, and collectors.
|National Gallery of Art
Description:The Gallery's Education Resources include more than 150 color slide programs, teaching packets, films, videocassettes, and videodiscs that are loaned free of charge to schools, libraries, community organizations, and individuals throughout the nation.
A free catalogue describing Extension Programs and procedures for ordering materials is available on written request, and multiple copies can be obtained for workshops. Write to: Department of Education Resources, Extension Programs Section, Education Division, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 20565.
The National Gallery of Art, Washington, CD-ROM is one of the many multimedia resources available in the Gallery Shop. This interactive program allows users to explore more than 1,500 works of art from the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Based on the museum's Micro Gallery multimedia system, this encyclopedic CD-ROM introduces the life and work of more than 600 artists. High-quality color reproductions permit close study of the works of art as well as enlarged details of every image. A subject index relates the works of art thematically, and a timeline places them in the context of historical and cultural events. Also included are an atlas and a dictionary of art terms. You’ll also find posters, books, National Gallery of Art Trading Cards, postcard reproductions for $.50 and 11" x 14" reproductions for $1.75 in the Gallery Shop online. Use the reproduction search to find the postcards and smaller reproductions.
|State Hermitage Museum
Description:Put together throughout two centuries and a half, the Hermitage collections of works of art (over 3,000,000 items) present the development of the world culture and art from the Stone Age to the 20th century. Today the Museum is creating its digital self-portrait to be displayed around the world. Computer technologies enable the State Hermitage Museum to provide people from all over the world with wider access to information about the Museum and its treasures.
|The Helpful Art Teacher
Description:Free step by step lessons. Developed by a middle school art teacher in alignment with National Art Standards. Links to thousands of great art images world wide. Great for cross curricular social studies and math activities too. Ages 10 to adult.
|The Incredible Art Department
Description:Everything to do with art---lessons, thousands of art links and downloads, links to college, secondary and elementary art departments, art news, and art jobs. You must see Mona Lisa's eyes move.
|The Renaissance Connection
Description:Travel 500 years into the past to discover many Renaissance innovations revealed through the Allentown Art Museum's Samuel H. Kress Collection of European art.
Be a patron of the arts. Design your own innovation. Investigate Renaissance artworks in depth. Discover how past innovations inform life today. And more, all enhanced with quirky visuals, irreverent humor, and engaging interactivity that reveal the ways that Renaissance life and culture resemble our own.