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Art

A Pintura, Art Detective
This clever site uses a Dashiell Hammet detective style to help children explore the world of art. Adults will too!
@rtroom
In the @rtroom, kids can see art projects for home and school, learn to think like an artist, view artwork by children, learn facts about famous artists, and find lists of book and other websites about art.
ART capades
Eyes on Art was created by Tom March, Pacific Bell Education First Fellow. This Web site was adapted from Eyes on Art by Linda Woods Hyman and Beth Bustamante for K-3 Spanish/English use. We will be adding more components as they become available.
ArtLex
You'll find definitions of over 2,400 art terms here, along with numerous illustrations, pronunciation notes, great quotations, and links to other resources on the Web. Names of artists and titles of works are noted only within entries about terms; they are not listed as terms themselves.
Artcyclopedia
Our mission is to become the definitive and most effective guide to museum-quality fine art on the Internet. We only provide references to sites on the World Wide Web where artists' works can be viewed online. Our general policy is, if an artist is in an arts museum collection, then he or she is qualified to be listed in our database.
Artslynx
Arts Links to Theatre, Dance, Music, and more from Artslynx. Includes a search engine for the entire site.
Asian Arts
An online journal devoted to the arts of Asia. Scholarly articles, pictures, and links to various exhibitions of Asian art make this a very worthwhile site.
Chinese Calligraphy: Language as Art
Welcome to the Chinese Calligraphy website. This website was created by elementary school children to introduce other young people to the art of Chinese calligraphy. We hope you enjoy learning about this ancient art form.
Dav Pilkey's Web Site O'Fun
The award-winning author and illustrator gets silly (and serious) in a site designed to encourage creativity and fun.
Exploring Leonardo
Learn about the quirks and complexities of Leonardo da Vinci, artist, scientist, inventor.
The Incredible Art Department
This web site is designed for both educators and children. There are sample lesson plans, links to art sites, including history. There are also links for art jobs and submission for "cartoons" written and designed by kids.
Katushika Hokusai
A gallery of Katushika Hokusai's landscape paintings, with a link to biographical information.
Kids Domain-Clip Art Index
For great, safe clip art, featuring lots of holiday and seasonal images that kids will want to add to their home pages. A few of the icons in the "All Kinds of Icons" section appear to be copied from commercial images. Use them with care.
KinderArt - Art Education
Over 150 art lesson plans, including drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, cross curricular art, multicultural art, seasonal units, recycling projects, the art book and yes, coloring pages too. Parents, teachers and kids can discover new things by taking the art quiz, peeking at the art trivia, stopping by the art kitchen, looking up words in the art glossary and reading articles. Oh and while you are here, visit the bookstore, stop by the link library and don't miss the tip of the day.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York>
The page for young people includes family guides, museum hunts and art games.
NASA Image Exchange
Astronomy and space-related pictures from various NASA databases. Kids must know how to perform keyword searches to locate images.
Women Artists in History
Find some short biographies of women artists, divided by period or era.
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Last Updated: 12/26/06