Fine Arts Resources
Art Education Sites
  • ArtSource--Check out this selective collection of links to high-caliber online art and architecture.

  • Art Institute of Chicago--Contains useful lesson plans for art teachers and students.

  • Art Teacher on the Net--Projects and activities (Arts & Crafts ideas and Art History) presented by a veteran art teacher.

  • ArtsEdge--Helps artists, teachers, and students gain access to and/or share information, resources, and ideas that support the arts as a core subject area in the K12 curriculum.

  • ArtsEdNet--An online service developed by the Getty Education Institute for the Arts, supporting the needs of the K-12 arts education community. Focuses on helping arts educators using the arts in their curriculum.

  • Eyes on Art--Make educational use of the wealth of Internet resources. providing educators with online activities and projects.

  • KinderArt--A comprehensive site providing information, lessons and much more for K-12 Art Education.

  • Origami USA--Dedicated to the sharing of paperfolding in America and around the world.
    Art Museuem Sites
  • Smithsonian American Art Museum--Browse an online collection of more that 4,000 art images, an online photography center and the Renwick Gallery of American crafts.

  • American Museum of Natural History--This site offers multimedia virtual tours with videos and 3-D images for various exhibits.

  • Art Institute of Chicago--Visit one of the US's great museums.

  • The Artchive--Provides links to some of the great exhibits in the US.

  • Exploratorium--A collage of 650 interactive exhibits in the areas of science, art, and human perception, providing access to and information about, science, nature, art and technology.

  • Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco--The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco is all about art access, committed to making their entire collection available online. The largest searchable art imagebase in the world.

  • The Louvre--This version of the Musee du Louvre, perhaps the most famous in the world, is free and open 24 hours a day.

  • Metropolitian Museum of Art--Visit one of New York's great art museums.

  • MuseumSpot--@ MuseumSpot, you can quickly and easily locate museums by city, state, country and name; find exhibit dates, virtual collections, offbeat attractions, industry resources and much more.

  • Museum of Modern Art--The museum's collection includes more than 100,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, etc.

  • National Gallery of Art--Offers a variety of online virtual tours on present and past exhibits.

  • Vatican Museum--Tour one of the world's most extensive collections of art. Specializing in Egyptian art.

  • Web Gallery of Art--A virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1150-1750), currently containing over 6,000 reproductions. Biographies, commentaries, guided tours are available.

  • Web Museum--Based in Paris and dedicated to bringing fine art to the Internet, Web Museum features an extensive image collection that includes 20th-century art; medieval works; and famous works from such respected artists as Cezanne, El Greco, Renoir, O'Keefe, Dali, and countless others.
    Music Sites
  • Jazz Online--"Make no mistake, jazz music is a tremendous force for peace and understanding between nations and people, and our world would be a far grimmer place without it." ... Sonny Rollins

  • J.S. Bach--The definitive source for information on the live of the famous composer.

  • Naxos--Contains biographical information on composers as well as a music glossary.

  • Piano on the Net--Here is a free Internet piano tutorial with instruction available at three levels: Starter, Intermediate and Advanced.
    Updated by Jacob Werner 11-24-08
    East Buchanan Community School Tech Team
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