Arts 

Journey to places that will help you accomplish beautiful things.  These sites will help you design and create any project.

Art Museums on the World Wide Web
Provides links to museums, galleries, and archives of art world wide.

A. Pintura, Art Detective
A fun, laid-back art education site. Teaches about the styles and techniques of several great painters in the context of a mystery game.
ARTSEDGE from the Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center's art education site includes curriculum ideas and outlines for teachers, as well as numerous links for kids and teachers.

Barry's Clip Art Server
Here you will find an extensive collection of clip art gathered from all over the Internet.

Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose
The website for the hands-on museum for children.  It offers interactive projects in every subject from the arts to technology.
Clip Art Searcher
Search the Web for graphics and images using this search engine.
Coloring.com
Pretty good interactive site for younger students.  Lets you select from a number of pictures to "color" with virtual crayons. Or you may print out the pictures to let young ones color with crayons or other art supplies.

Eyes on Art
This site contains several class activities to aid in learning about different techniques of art and art appreciation.
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
This site has a children's section and tips for art teachers. Lots of works online that can be viewed.
A History of Photography
Good resource site for photographic history, figures and terms. Lots of good information that's easy to access.

Kids Gallery
A gallery of kid's art of different kinds.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
This site is designed to give visitors an overview of the collections on display in the museum. It has excellent offerings for both teachers and students.
National Endowment for the Arts
Official site for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has featured artists' images, news, policy, etc.
The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
This gallery provides special services to art teachers free of charge.  Online teachers' guides are available for some of the exhibitions.
Paelolithic Cave Paintings in France
This is the English-language version of a site devoted to the discovery in southern France of a vast underground network of caves decorated with paintings and engravings dating from the Paleolithic Age (17,000-20,000 years ago).  Excellent text accompanies good visuals.
The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American Art
Students can tour 10 online exhibitions.  The Office of Educational Programs develops teacher guides, student activity packets, and other materials that complement the exhibitions.
Vincent Van Gogh Information Gallery
Everything you ever wanted to know about Van Gogh on one website.
WebMuseum, Paris
The Louvre online.
Web Gallery of Art
Over 2,800 digital images of European paintings done between 1200 and 1700 AD. Complete listing of artists with biographies.
Women in the Arts
Women in art from the Renaissance to present day has good biographies on female artists and a gallery showcasing some of that art.
World Wide Arts Resources
Good resource page.  Has its own search engine to lots of different types of art sites on the Web dealing with visual arts, dance, architecture, arts employment, art supplies and more.
World Art Treasures
This site helps students better understand civilizations through art.

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