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Elementary through High School Arts Curriculum Resources and Traditional Arts Resources.

 

Arts Curriculum

 

 

FAIR USE - USE IT OR LOSE IT

 

STANDARDS, GUIDES AND LESSON PLANS

The National Network for Folk Arts in Education  reflects our continuing emphasis on linking local culture, arts, people, organizations, resources, and education.

Kennedy Center ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY

National Assembly of State Arts Agencies

Arts & Learning Resources for State Leaders
Developed as part of the Arts Education Leadership Network Initiative, this page helps state arts education leaders locate resources relevant to their work. It is divided into five sections: News and Information, Resources, Research, Related Organizations and Partnerships. Under Research, connect to research search engines and useful publications, or submit an article to a leading journal. The Related Organizations section serves as a gateway to a multitude of arts and education groups. Find links to national grant guidelines under Resources. Initiative updates and reports are located in Partnerships.

The National Arts Policy Clearinghouse
Houses American for the Arts' 6,000 documents. Topics include: Resources for Artists, Arts Education, Cultural Consumer; Design Arts; Historic Preservation; Economics and the Arts; Folk Arts; Government, Public Policy and Arts and Culture; Literary Arts; Media Arts; Nonprofit Arts Organizations; Performing Arts; and Visual Arts, Museums and Galleries. A searchable database delivers titles and abstracts of relevant documents as well as information on how to obtain them. Users can access reports, publications and speeches.

The Arts Education Partnership (formerly known as the Goals 2000 Arts Education Partnership) is a private, nonprofit coalition of more than 100 national education, arts, business, philanthropic and government organizations that demonstrate and promote the essential role of arts education in enabling all students to succeed in school, life and work. The Partnership was formed in 1995 through a cooperative agreement between the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the U. S. Department of Educati on, the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA), and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO).

The President’s Committee was created by Presidential Executive Order in 1982 to encourage private sector support and to increase public appreciation of the value of the arts and the humanities, through projects, publications and meetings.Appointed by the President, the Committee comprises leading citizens from the private sector who have an interest in and commitment to the humanities and the arts. Its members also include the heads of federal agencies with cultural programs, such as the National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the U. S. Department of Education, the Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress, the National Gallery of Art and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Impact of Art on Learning Research

K12 Government Resources

Johanna Misey Boyer
Director of Leadership Development
National Assembly of State Arts Agencies
1029 Vermont Avenue, NW, 2nd Floor
Washington, DC 20005
202-347-6352 x104
301-589-0331 (Thursday & Friday)
202-737-0526 (Fax)

Rachelle H. Saltzman, Ph.D., Folklife Coordinator
Iowa Arts Council Grants, Iowa Community Cultural Grants, Folk & Traditional Arts Program, Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program
Iowa Arts Council
A Division of the Department of Cultural Affairs
600 E. Locust St.
Des Moines, IA 50319
515/242-6195
fax: 515/242-6498
riki.saltzman@dca.state.ia.us
http://www.culturalaffairs.org

North Carolina developed a detailed Arts Education Standard Course of Study for grades K-12 in the area of Art, Drama, Music, Dance and the Visual Arts. The document was developed by artists as well as teachers. Sample lesson plans are included within the objectives listed. I know of artists/ educators and teachers who use this document when teaching the arts. I believe you can obtain a copy from:

NC Dept. of Public Instruction
301. N. Wilmington Street
Raleigh, NC 27602-2825
The people to conatct at this address would be:
Mr. Bryar Cougle [v] 919-715-1783
Theatre Arts and Visual Arts Education
Mr. Preston Hancock [v] 919-715-1785
Dance and Music Education
fax number for their department is [f] 919-715-0517

 

RESOURCES AND ONLINE PROJECT

CARTOON ART

 

The Digital Exquisite Corpse Project - Integrate Art and Technology into the Classroom
http://www.ravenswingstudio.com/docs/ecgallery.html which I love and thought would be just the greatest thing to do in the classroom :-) "Here's how our digital version works, as devised by the three of us: The first artist creates a digital image on his computer, then emails the bottom quarter inch of the image to the next artist. We call this quarter inch piece the "reference strip." The second artist uses this strip as a reference for starting his section. When completed, he emails the bottom quarter inch of his image to the third artist, who then creates the last section. Once all sections are completed, we email them to one another and they are put together in Photoshop to form one image. There is no altering or touching up of the image after the sections are completed. They go together exactly as they arrive. If you'd like to see a graphic demonstration of the process, click HERE

 

TEACH CHILDREN TO BUILD A WEBPAGE

PICTURE RELEASE FORM School Acceptable Use Policy Release Form for publishing Students Pictures on the Web.SCHOOL SITES & CHILDREN'S FACES

COPYRIGHT REQUEST FOR PERMISSION TO USE FORM LETTER

Learn about webcasting and how to do it.

Native American Oral Tradition - Each student will interview an elder and write their personal history, otherwise lost due to the Native American oral tradition. Elders will edit student writing for content accuracy while meeting and corresponding with them over the Internet during product (booklet of the elder's personal history) development.

LEARN HOW TO BUILD A WEBPAGE OR A WEBSITE

LEARN ABOUT WEBQUESTS

TEACH YOUR STUDENTS TO MAKE A WEBQUEST Let your class use the computer to BUILD A WEBQUEST

TAKE THE EMPTY NEST WEBQUEST

BUILD A WEBQUEST ABOUT THE FUNK BROTHERS
"Responsible Musicians, Artists and Behind the Scenes People Who Support Education" have a message for children in your classroom.

 

Free Art Lessons:
THE ADMIRAL COWDISLEY EDUCATION GROUP
This is a free site for students who want to learn 'how to look' and teachers who require practical drawing and painting lesson notes. Cowdisley Lessons are currently being used by over 550 US and international schools, colleges, universities and ateliers by teachers for their classroom lesson plans. We aim for a world of greatly improved visual 'literacy' and begin here with the basics.

How to Create Flick Animations with CSS

Photoshop Tutorials

Art Interactive, Learn about Sculpture

Learn to Animate Still Photos for free

THE PERFORMING ARTS:
General Performing, Cool Stuff, Dance, Theater, Circus, Costumes, Playgrounds, Amusements,Special Events / Festivals Dance will be tested for 800 12th graders as a field test only since only 4% of schools in the USA have dance education. Teaching Geometry through dance

 

REAL LIFE DISCUSSIONS FOR THE CLASSROOM

Racist Stereotypes in Advertising - Uncle Ben has been promoted to CEO, watch the slide show "The Strange History of Racist Spokescharacters,"
most of which represent food products. Superstar spokescharacter has roots in the minstrelsy.

Q. Do you think there should be technology used in the art classroom for art lessons or maybe taking them to the computer lab?
A. Technology is a definite for art lessons. My wife is an oil painter and book illustrator who uses a computer extensively. In the oil painting end of her work, she uses the computer for:

  1. reference to how other painters have portrayed specific subjects
  2. scanning sketches so they can be re-composed
  3. trying out different color to see their effects before committing to paint
  4. resizing and reorienting included objects relative to the overall canvas
  5. ordering supplies
  6. asking questions of other artists through mailing lists
  7. showing works in progress to clients via email attachments
  8. Future artists will use technology. Current art education should show how the technologies are used as much as possible.

Art Resources Collection Compiled by Judy Decker

The National Network for Folk Arts in Education

A PPT COLLECTION OF BEAUTIFUL PHOTOGRAPHS

ClipArt, Sounds and Fonts Galore
Excellent Huge Resource

GRANTS

Museums Online

National Endowment for the Arts

Free Web Graphics Sites

Art and Technology intersect "CyberFashin"
Some of Steve Mann's WearComp/WearCam inventions from the past 20 years, were presented on mannequeins throughout the Galler. STEVE MANN, an engineering professor at the University of Toronto, has lived as a cyborg for more than 20 years, wearing a web of wires, computers and electronic sensors that are designed to augment his memory, enhance his vision and keep tabs on his vital signs. Although his wearable computer system sometimes elicited stares, he never encountered any problems going through the security gates at airports. Last month that changed...... http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/14/Technology/circuits/14MANN.html

Flash Site I Think Is Great

Art History Resources on the Web Contents include Prehistoric, Ancient, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, 18th- Century, 19th-Century, 20th-Century, Non-European, Research Resources, Museums & Galleries and Prints & Photography.


Three Dimensional Art Online (photographs) Activist Artists
  1. Guerrilla Girls
    A group of artists and creative professionals known collectively as the Guerilla Girls have been exposing gender and racial inequality in the art world since the mid 1980's, and their techniques are pretty unorthodox.
  2. Feminist Judy Chicago - For over three decades Ms. Chicago has remained steadfast in her commitment to the power of art as a vehicle for intellectual transformation and social change. She is known and respected as an artist and humanist whose work and life are a model for an enlarged definition of art and an expanded role for the artist. Her contribution to our culture was recently acknowledged by Smith College with the awarding of an honorary degree.
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