ART AND MUSIC

Among the Best: for Teachers, Students, Parents

from the Midvale-Lincoln Accelerated School Web Site, Madison, Wisconsin

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African Mask from the Nok Museum of African Arts - see link below

New Sites, Updated August 10, 2000

ART MUSIC

Note: Many museum sites have clickable images. For instance, the preview will show a small thumbnail picture enclosed in a blue box (or not). Click inside the box or image, and the image will become much larger. Some sites have a ZOOM box which will do the same thing.


Library of Congress Kids' Pages: Treasures of the Library of Congress.
Childrens' Music Web: One of the Top 100 Educational Web Sites of 1999. Non-profit organization dedicated to music for children.
Award Winner from ThinkQuest Jr.: Instruments, sound clips (depending on computer capability), activities.
Artcom: This is a place where one can visit more that 1,700 U.S. museums of all types; gardens, zoos, planetariums, aquariums and other fine cultural institutions.
Dogs in Art: Looks at the way artists communicae their experience of dogs.
Art Museum Network: The world's largest and most prestigious art museums have joined forces to provide free access to information about their collections, exhibitions, and services.
Asian Art Museum: Highlights of San Francisco's Asian Art Museum Collection. The enormous sweep of the collection takes it across the countries and cultures of Asia and has within its fold over 12,000 objects.
Berit's Best Sites for Children: Safe, recommended, award winning web sites for children to age 12, carefully reviewed and rated 1-5. An ALA Notable Children's Web Site. One great site: Author/Illustrator Jan Brett's web site, beautiful! Send electronic Jan Brett postcards, download beautiful alphabet and numbers pages, lots more.
Origami: Comprehensive site with many links. Offers instructions, diagrams to download or print, for the beginner to highly skilled and accomplished.
Nok Museum of African Arts: Artistry of African Masks. Incredibly beautiful exhibit of masks, and more.
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco: Interactive site at one of the most beautiful museums in the country. Wonderful collection of African Art
Carlos Museum, Emory University: Beautiful, easy to navigate site. A great many clickable images, featuring Africa's Sub-Saharan Art : Masks, sculptures, ceramics, from Nigeria, Zaire, Sierra Leone. Art of the Ancient Americas Central and South America from AD 1-1550. Includes sculptures from volcanic stone called "tuff", very rare; Honduran marble; ceramics from the Andes, and more; Ancient Near Eastern Art including examples of the earliest glass pieces, the first blown glass from the 1st century B.C., Aladdin-like clay lamps, beautiful bronze from Iran, 8-7th BC and more.
Diego Rivera: Virtual Art Museum with Versión en Español. One of the greatest artists of the 20th Century, born in Guanajuato, Mexico in 1892. Site includes clickable gallery of his Paintings, Murals, a biography, and more
Art Capadea: Easy, fun, educational activities for K-3/4 including monolingual Spanish speakers
Oaxacan Pottery: Terrific site for all ages. Discover this 1,000 year old tradition. Tour several pottery villages in the state of ("Wa-HA-ka") Oaxaca, Mexico, to see the art and artisans at work
International Kids' Space: 5 Star site: Kids share artwork, short stories, music
Art Safari: Prompts kids to explore paintings and sculptures from MOMA. Questions guide kids to write about what they see. Kids can create and submit their own art.
Getty Center for Education in the Arts: Outstanding state-of-the-art information
Crayola: Craft ideas, stories, games, pictures to print and color. Teachers' section.
Eyes on Art: For primary students just "learning to look" as well as advanced students in the visual arts.
Web Musuem, Paris: Great site! For anyone interested in art. Beautiful reproductions of art, plus biographies and cultural information, includes many museums worldwide.
Artcyclopedia: Great starting point for finding museum-quality art on the Web. Search by artists - link to a museum. Monthly highlights of artists, museums, more.
The Alphabet of Art: Award winning site. Complex but beautiful and interesting
The @rt Room: Mission is to provide a virtual learning environment for exploring the world of art. Includes "learn how to think like an artist" and Art Gallery with kids art from around the world.