Carrye
Campbell
SLM 521
Spring 2005
Web Link Bibliography
The following
web sites are associated with art in some way. Regardless if you are a student,
parent or teacher, the following sites are simply interesting and thought
provoking for anyone who appreciates art. I hope that teachers will utilize
these websites as starting points for deriving creative lesson plans and
students refer to them as sources of artistic inspiration.
Fabulously Creative
Art:21–Art in the Twenty-First Century is the only series
on television to focus exclusively on contemporary visual art and artists in
the United States, and it uses the medium of television to provide an experience
of the visual arts that goes far beyond a gallery visit. The Art:21 website
tells about the series and the artists, in addition to featuring educational
resources for teachers and students, events, and web discussions. 2/12/05
http://www.pbs.org/art21/index.html
This is a spectacular
astronomy site that features images of various celestial phenomena. The images
are so beautiful and often abstract – definitely not the typical solar
system website. Art and Science teachers should reference this site to create
exciting interdisciplinary lessons. 2/19/05
http://www.photomeeting.de/astromeeting/_index.htm
A simple (though multifaceted) art project with a profound
truth at the core: Whatever our hyper-consumerist culture tries to tell you,
you're wonderful just as you are right this minute. The site features images of the You Are Beautiful message in the form of stickers and original signage
within the urban landscape. Students could be encouraged to develop and
implement their own inspirational art project. 2/19/05
http://you-are-beautiful.com/
This is the official website for
artists Christo and his wife, Jeanne Claude. The Gates project for Central Park, New York is the latest
exhibition for the artists known for their massive environmental art
installations. Teachers could create multidisciplinary lessons (art, math, social studies) by
investigating the artistsı projects and methods. 2/12/05
http://www.christojeanneclaude.net/tg.html
For thirty-six weeks, a sketchbook
was sent in random order between four artists: two in Brooklyn, two in Belfast.
After traveling over 60,000 miles, book is an incredible graphic compilation of
mixed media, collage, text, and images. Students (and adults) of all ages
should be encouraged to create their own sketchbooks. 2/19/05
http://www.lookatbook.com/
UNDERSTANDING VORN is an artwork in flux. Every five
minutes it scours thousands of weblogs, searching for the four most recently
posted pictures that begin with the letters V, O, R, N. Every five minutes, UNDERSTANDING VORN changes,
filled with fresh words and pictures from the blogosphere. This is a really
cool concept that becomes addictive as you keep waiting for five minutes to
pass and a new composition is displayed. 2/19/05
http://understandingvorn.org/
This site allows visitors to
peruse archived TIME magazine covers (and inside content) from 1923 to present.
A multitude of creative historical lessons within several subject areas could
be derived from this site. Be sure to explore the siteıs feature that allows
you to plug-in your birthday and see the magazine that was circulating at the
time. 2/19/05
http://www.time.com/time/archive/
This site compiles photos of art created as part of a 1998
contest where jewelers were challenged to make something beautiful from cheap
aluminum spoons. The results are simply astonishing; museums would be proud to
own many of these witty, gorgeous sculptures. A Spoon
Further would be a great tool for art teachers to use when introducing found
object sculptures or art from unconventional sources. 2/19/05
http://tau.ur.ru/spoon/eindex.asp
Incredibly beautiful, wildly creative, and staggering under
extraordinary social inequalities, Brazil is a country that demands our
attention as the American economy changes into its 21st-century form.
Photographer Geoffrey Hiller has developed a wonderful multimedia site that
details what he found there. Prepare to spend some quality time, and turn up
the speakers. 2/19/05
http://www.hillerphoto.com/brazil/
Artists Andrew Saur and Angel Sarkela create lovely sepia-toned
watercolor images with coffee, rather than paint. A number of their works are
shown on this site. Art teachers should explore this and other unconventional
media as ways for their students to create original works of art. 2/19/05
http://www.justcoffeeart.com/
This site features the catalog of the Schoyen Collection, which
is comprised of 13,497 manuscripts from the past 5,000 years of human history.
You can not see everything here, but the taste they give visitors is pretty
amazing: The first bylined piece of literature in history, materials from all
four of the first major river-valley civilizations, even material dating back
50,000 years (symbolic art of Australiaıs Aboriginal population). This site is
useful reference for teachers in all subject areas. 2/19/05
http://www.nb.no/baser/schoyen/intro.html
This online exhibit by Tei Matsushita Scott is wonderfully
simple; Her work is greatly inspired by poetry, so each painting's image is
accompanied by a commentary, often containing excerpts of poetry. Visual Arts
and Language Arts teachers will find this site very helpful for teaching
concepts (Japanese art, culture, history, poetry) in a creative and memorable
way. 2/19/05
http://www.matsushita.com/_en/index.html
The proprietor of this site comes from a family that was pretty
serious about keeping in touch, apparently; his father handed over several
hundred cards sent between 1900 and 1910 between various relatives, and seeing
that they are both fascinating and in the public domain, he has scanned them
and put them online for your edification and use. Students, parents, and
teachers alike will enjoy viewing the art and peeking into the lives of people
from a century ago. 2/19/05
http://fultonchain.net/postcards/
Youıll need a respectable amount of bandwidth to appreciate this
site, which uses video and morphing techniques to slow things down that are fast,
speed things up that are slow, and uncover what happens right in front of our
eyes but beyond the range of human vision. The results: time-lapse photography
of a womanıs body changing through pregnancy, the fog lifting over a forest,
the cat lapping up milk. Not only is this site beautifully artistic, but also
teachers and students in all academic subjects could utilize it. 2/19/05
http://www.playingwithtime.org/
Activities / Concepts
Not just for girls, this great site presents art, science and
math concepts in ways designed to appeal to intelligent and inquisitive kids,
and adults can also learn a few things from the nifty facts and quick,
appealing games. The Mandala Maker would be a great way to incorporate
computers and art. 2/19/05
http://www.girlsgotech.org/
Better than the real thing, Sand Art is fun for anyone ages 4 to
104. By simply clicking the mouse, colored sandı pours into a container,
creating an original composition to be printed and displayed. 2/19/05
http://lovethosekids.com/playgrnd/sandart.htm
This site features a more-conceptual-than-usual scribble pad that
will take your chicken scratchings and make them intodifferent chicken
scratchings. Play with the settings and see how the program can turn your
humble doodling into something quite other. 2/19/05
http://www.zefrank.com/scribbler/
This web site provides some starting points for an exploration of
color; the concept is approached via the disciplines of physiology, psychology,
philosophy, and art. Take the Global
Color Survey and help decide the official color of our new millennium and be
sure to check out the Interesting Factoids about color. 2/19/05
http://www.colormatters.com/
AccessArt online workshops are based upon artist-led teaching and
explore topics such as sculpture and installation art. Students, parents, and
teachers can search by age range or theme to select colorfully animated,
interactive visual pages, plus printouts and notes. 2/19/05
http://www.accessart.org.uk/online_workshops.html
This terribly charming site looks at color, its meaning in
various cultures, and how itıs used to express attitudes and moods – and
does it as if the visitor is a casting director, sizing up colors for a
production. The heart of the piece is it he lab, where youıll produce your own
³scenes² for each color and cast your ³stars² in appropriate movies, but donıt
miss the short films (and specifically the creative openings for the short
films). 2/19/05
http://www.mariaclaudiacortes.com/
Art News
Artdaily.com is proud to be the ³First Art Newspaper on the Net²
and has much to offer art professionals, students, and anyone that loves art.
This avant-garde publication features anecdotes by famous artists, links to
nearly every museum that offers a website in the world, and a fantastic search
engine. 2/19/05
http://www.artdaily.com/
Non-profit Organizations
Americans for the Arts is the nation's leading nonprofit
organization for advancing the arts in America. Teachers and parents may find
the Americans for the Arts bookstore and Online Resource Center for Arts
Education in Public Schools particularly helpful. 2/19/05
http://ww3.artsusa.org/
National
Art Education Association (NAEA)
NAEA is as a fantastic non-profit organization that promotes
quality art education. Every art teacher (regardless
of level) should be a member in order to be informed on current
directions, problems, and exemplary approaches in visual art education. 2/19/05
http://www.naea-reston.org/index.html