Mural, 2009
Ink and Acrylic on Canvas
Photo Credit: Tom Powel
23 x 80 feet
© Julie Mehretu
Twitter (Art Education)
- @virtualinstruct — The Virtual Instructor is a source for free art lessons.
- @theartofed — AOE exists to empower Art Teachers with Ridiculously Relevant™ Professional Development.
- @theartmarket — News and developments in the global art market, covering commercial galleries, museums, auctions and art fairs.
- @incredartdept — The Incredible Art Department, a visual arts website for students, teachers, artists, parents, and homeschoolers.
- @ThesmARTteacher — A community of art educators, art organizations, and art lovers.
- @canva — Amazingly simple online graphic design making website.
- @Erintegration — 3rd grade teacher & Technology Integration Facilitator.
Twitter (Arts and Culture)
- @BMIAAGENDA — News and events regarding architecture in Europe.
- @artfinder — A global marketplace for original art, directly supporting independent artists.
- @mocoloco — A web magazine devoted to modern contemporary designers and architects.
- @vulture — Devouring culture. An @NYMag site.
- @an_artnews — The latest on the contemporary visual arts, from a-n.
- @hyperallergic — The World's Greatest Art Blogazine covering art and its discontents
- @ArtMonthly — Taking art apart since 1976.
- @bbcarts — The best of arts and culture from @BBC.
- @BBC_Culture — A global view of film, fashion, art, music, books, design and more from the BBC.
- @HistoryInPix — Sharing the most powerful and entertaining historical photographs ever taken.
- @creativetime — Presents the most innovative art in the public realm. Read their journalism wing at @ArtistsReport.
- @artdaily — An Art magazine on the Web.
Twitter (Museums, Galleries, Spaces)
- @MuseumNext — Global conferences on the future of museums. New York City - Nov 2016, Melbourne - Feb 2017, Rotterdam - June 2017.
- @AAMers — American Alliance of Museums. Champion Museums. Nurture Excellence.
- @MuseumDirectors — The Association of Art Museum Directors advances the profession by cultivating leadership and communicating standards of excellence in museum practice.
- @artinstitutechi — The Art Institute of Chicago is the second largest art museum in the USA housing a world-renowned encyclopedic collection.
- @vangoghmuseum — Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam houses the world’s largest Van Gogh collection.
- @honolulumuseum — Hawai‘i’s cultural hub with two museums, an art school, a theater and two cafés. Add us on Snapchat and Periscope
- @mPICASSOm — Bienvenidos a la cuenta oficial en Twitter del Museo Picasso Málaga.
- @MuseeOrsay — The official Twitter page of Musée d'Orsay.
- @asianartmuseum — The largest museum in the western world devoted to Asian art, & here to rock your world.
- @Museo_Lazaro — Lazaro Galdiano Museum in Madrid exhibits the art collections of Jose Lazaro. More than 12,000 pieces from antique jewelry to paintings by Goya.
- @MRomanticismo — Romanticism Museum is a museum dedicated to the nineteenth century... but in the XXI century. Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport. Located in Madrid, Spain.
- @MuseeLouvre — The official Twitter Page of the Louvre. #Louvre, #MuseeDelacroix,#AuditoriumLouvre, #Tuileries.
Resources
- Adobe Education Exchange: Arts — Free resources, expertise, and opportunities for educators specifically for Arts, design, creative programs, etc.
- The Incredible Art Department (IAD) — Free art lessons, news, art resources, art careers, schools, and help for new art teachers.
- CreativeBloq — Daily balance of creative tips and inspiration across web design, graphic design, 3D and more.
- National Gallery of Art — Borrow free-loan teaching packets and DVDs or access online lessons, activities, and inter-actives to bring art to your classroom, home, non-profit tv station, or other learning setting. All materials are free.
- The Met | Educators — Offering a variety of programs designed for K–12 educators that explore objects in The Met collection, interdisciplinary curriculum integration, and methods for teaching with objects. Foster your students' learning and your own in workshops and events and with online, print, and other resources.
- Student Art Guide — For middle and high school. Provides art project ideas, motivation, tips, recommended art books, stationery lists, downloadable posters and handouts.
- Teacher Vision — Lesson plans, printables, activities, quizzes, and references, perfect for art teachers at the elementary, middle, or high school level. Exploring their creative sides in their science, math, social studies, and reading classes, as well as their art class.
- The Art of Ed — An innovative higher-learning institution serving art teachers exclusively. Offering rigorous and relevant online graduate courses. Publishing practical and compelling classroom strategies in the form of daily articles, videos, lesson plans, podcasts, and more.
- The Art Story | Modern Art Insight — Demystifing Modern Art. Modern Art is about ideas, and we want to expose those ideas to the world.
- The Wall Street Journal | Arts — Updates for the Arts from WSJ.
- @The_RedList — The Red List. Lost in visual arts ? Time to get in the list.
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@AskACurator — Ask questions to passionate experts on Sept 14 2016. Coordinated by@MarDixon There are no silly questions, just those not asked!
- @LMCC — Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Empowering artists, invested in communities.
- Essential Questions and Understandings for the Arts — Important ideas and concepts for Visual Arts and the Standards.
- Art cyclopedia — Large database for artists, artworks, museums, etc.
Art and Design Resources
Online, Design
Online, Design
- Canva — Free design tool for social media, presentations, posters, graphics, and more.
Photography
- The Art of Photography Podcast — Ted Forbes is a photographer and filmmaker. He started producing the Art of Photography as a podcast in 2008 and the show has since grown into a popular YouTube channel and resource website providing a 360° view of photography to a global audience.
- Composition Study — A resource of understanding visual composition and compositional concepts. Its a place to learn for photographers who wish to grasp some of the concepts typically explored by painters.
- Still Life Photogaphy — by The Art of Photography narrated by Ted Forbes. Highly useful video about the history of still life with examples of modern still life through photography still life work.
Virtual Tours and Virtual Field Trips
- Saatchi Gallery Art Prizes for Schools — International Art prizes for schoolchildren up to age 18.
- The Louvre — Visit the museum's exhibition rooms and galleries, contemplate the façades of the Louvre.
- Google Art Project — Virtual collections from around the world with artworks photographed in high resolution. Create and share collections of masterpieces.
Education Programmes
- The Saatchi Gallery — Introducing a younger audience of art students and enthusiasts to work at the cutting edge of contemporary art. The facilities - at the Gallery, via the website and in the Gallery classroom for schools - endeavor to ensure that teachers receive the best on-site and outreach support possible for their students. Teachers nights, site visits, etc.
YouTube
- Arts at MIT — The MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) creates new opportunities for art, science and technology to thrive as interrelated, mutually informing modes of exploration, knowledge and discovery.
Pinterest
- 10 TED Talks Every Art Teacher Should Watch
- Technology Erintigration — Elementary teacher, technology integrator, and lover of design. iPad activities, resources, tech, holiday activities, STEAM. (More.)
Blogs
- Goshen College — A basic guide to planning Art lessons by Marvin Bartel
- Ms. King’s AP Studio Art class — The activities cover perspective, line drawing, the depiction of glass and metal objects, working in monochrome, figure drawing and still life arrangements; providing structured activities to help students complete the 12 AP Breadth pieces. Each assignment is accompanied by artwork from students.
- InThinking Visual Arts — For International Baccalaureate (IB) Art teachers. Teaching materials, ideas, handouts, notes, presentations, etc.
Podcasts
- The Art of Ed — A podcast for Art teachers. Subscribe on iTunes.
- KCRW’s Art Talk — Their podcast is a great way to catch up on contemporary art and artists. Subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher.
- Stuff you Should Know — Join the hilarious Josh and Chuck as they take a big picture look at some of most mundane topics out there. But they never fail to deliver the goods. The chemistry and camaraderie these two have is infectious. Subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher.
- 99% Invisible — Inspired by a Buckminster Fuller quote, 99% Invisible explores the hidden side of architecture and design. Producer Roman Mars finds hidden nuggets of how the world we live in was designed. Subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher.
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