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This page lists new links that have been added to Incredible Art Education Resources. Browse each month to see what is new. Sorry I have not been updating this page. Many new individual artists sites have been added.

NOVEMBER 2007 ADDITIONS

• Listening to Our Ancestors: The Art of Native Life Along the North Pacific Coast. Presented by the National Museum of the American Indian this Web exhibit focuses on ceremonial and everyday objects created and used by 11 Native communities that have lived in the Pacific Northwest. Excellent presentation- requires Flash.

JUNE 2007 ADDITIONS

• FugleFlicks - Art Related Videos - Educational short videos created by Tricia Fuglestad and her students to teach art related concepts. Added to Art Education links page.

• Inscribing Meaning: Writing + Graphics in African Art - explores the relationships between African art and the communicative powers of language, graphic systems and the written word. On African Art Links page.

• Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo - Ongoing online exhibit at Brooklyn Museum. Contains an essay on Hiroshige and his life and a very helpful primer titled "How to Read a Japanese Woodblock Print". Browse the images by seasons or key words. On Art of Asia and Printmaking pages.

• National Building Museum in Washington DC. See online exhibits and teacher resources. On Architecture links page.

MARCH 2007 ADDITIONS

• Morgan Library & Museum - New York, New York. See online exhibits. Illuminated manuscripts and more. On American Museums and Age of Discovery.
  
  
• African Vision: The Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection View Timeline (Follow the Art). See sections on masks, figurative work and images of power & prestige. You can zoom in on images and see multiple views of some objects. On African Art Links.
  
  
• Off the Map: Landscape in the Native Imagination - exhibit at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. On Native American Links page 
  
  
• Identity by Design: Tradition, Change and Celebration in Native Women's Dresses - web exhibition from the National Museum of the American Indian pairs historic dresses with commentary and memories from contemporary Native American women designers, who work in traditional styles. Primarily Plains cultures. Added to Native American links page.

FEBRUARY 2007 ADDITIONS

• The Artists' Book Collection - The Kohler Art Library at University of Wisconsin-Madison presents this illustrated database that indexes roughly 760 titles from its collection of over 800 artists' books. (On Papermaking/Bookmaking)
  
  
• AIDS Posters  UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library created this digital archive of 625 posters from 44 countries, including Australia, Costa Rica, New Zealand, and Poland. (on Artists/Art Styles page)
  
  
• Luce Foundation Center for American Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC.  ...discover thirty-five hundred paintings, sculptures, miniatures, craft objects, and folk art pieces from the collection  Browse the collection. Added to USA Museums page and American Art.

JANUARY 2007 ADDITIONS

• New Listing - Contemporary African Artists - on Africa Links page.

• Museum of African Diaspora - An international museum, based in San Francisco. (on African Links page)

  Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts - in Brooklyn, New York. (On African Links page)

• Tunisia: Images and Sights - from Melissa Enderle. Melissa says, the Bardo Museum in Tunis has the best collection of Roman (and also Byzantine) mosaics in the world. See Ancient Civilizations.

• Studio Museum Harlem in New York, New York. (See North American Museums page)

• Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
  Curricula and Lesson Plans. See Carnival - activities - curriculum. Listed on North American Museums page.

• Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut. Nice selection of images from the Collection on line. See "What is Art?"  - Games in Schoolhouse - K-12 resources. 

DECEMBER 2006 ADDITIONS

• ArtPad is a very cool flash-based paint program from art.com. Have fun creating art! Link added to Art for Kids.
  
  
• Teachers' Guide for Japanese Papermaking - history, traditions, and techniques of Japanese papermaking and paper, called washi (pdf file to read/download). New resource from Robert C Williams Paper Museum. Added to History of Handmade Paper.
  
  
• ¡del Corazón! Latino Voices in American Art - Smithsonian American Art Museum online exhibit, which uses photographs, videos, and other resources to examine how various Latino artists speak through their different artworks. Lesson plans included (available in English).  Much of the site's materials are available in both English and Spanish. More resources for Latino Art. Link added to Art of Mexico - Hispanic Art and Art of America.
  
  
• Cartoon America: A Library of Congress Exhibition - online collection that contains a selection of materials from James Arthur Wood Jr.  The exhibition is divided into six sections, including "Imaginary Worlds: Illustration" and "Punch Lines: Gag & Single Panel Cartoons". On Art of America
  
  
• Learning Through Art - encourages teachers and teaching artists to design art projects that support student learning across the curriculum. Site provides two sets of tools for the classroom. From Guggenheim Museum. Linked on American Museums.

NOVEMBER 2006 ADDITIONS

• Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA. Check ARTscape - an online multimedia tool that allows visitors to create their own themed collections. Added to USA Museums page.

OCTOBER 2006 ADDITIONS

• Archives of African American Music and Culture (AAAMC) from Indiana University - a repository of materials covering a range of African American musical idioms and cultural expressions from the post-World War II era. See Black Grooves - black music review site. On Africa American Art and History and Comprehensive Arts.
  
  
• Getty Games - Fun interactive art games from the Getty. Play the Detail Detective, Matching Game, Switch (find five changes), and Puzzles...using favorites from the Getty collection. Detail Detective and Switch are both timed games. Try them all and see how you do. Listed on Just for Kids.
  
  
• Fair Use Network - provides information anyone who has questions about "IP" (intellectual property) law. Linked on Curriculum Resources

SEPTEMBER 2006 ADDITIONS

• The Warhol: Recourses and Lessons teaching across the arts and humanities. In depth unit plans, one day activities, timeline and more. Added to American Artists page.

• Learning@Whitney  Resources for teachers, kids and teens. Collect art, modern art timeline, research tips and more. Added to North American Museums page. 

• Cuneiform - writing of Mesopotamia - short essay by Richard Hooker, Washington State University. How cuneiform developed and write your initials in cuneiform interactive from University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. On Ancient Civilizations

• Slave Narratives - Created by the Museum of the African Diaspora.
  Roll over a series of multicolored dots to learn about the first-hand
  perspectives of slaves. Narration by Dr. Maya Angelou. Site requires Flash Player. On African American Art and History

• Enduring Outrage: Editorial Cartoons by Herblock -  small selection of some of Herb Block's renderings may be viewed at this site, which complements an exhibit at the American Treasures Gallery in Washington, D.C. On Artists and Art Styles.

• Museum of Modern Art - Modern Teachers: Download PDFs of educators guides, browse images, or search lessons by subject, theme, medium, or artist. Text and images can be printed, projected, or saved into a presentation. On USA Museums.

• Smithsonian Photography Initiative - an online repository of images, a gateway to exhibitions, and a community where visitors can find not only images, but can also connect with others with similar interests, ranging from experts to amateurs. See Enter the Frame, an interactive interface where visitors can browse images from 19 Smithsonian museums. On Photography Links)

AUGUST 2006 ADDITIONS

• Project Zero - education research group from Harvard University.  "Project Zero's mission is to understand and enhance learning, thinking, and creativity in the arts, as well as humanistic and scientific disciplines, at the individual and institutional levels." See research for the arts.  On Arts Advocacy page.

• Meet Me At Midnight - Interactive site from Smithsonian American Art Museum. Designed to teach middle school students about some works in the collection.  On Just for Kids
  

JUNE 2006 ADDITIONS

• America's Art - companion Web site to a new book of the same title from the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM). Shows all 225 works - organized into 16 chapters. Listed on American Artists
  
• "I Read it in the Book of the Dead" - Interactive from University of Chicago. Learn about mummification and burial in Ancient Egypt. On Ancient Civilizations

MAY 2006 ADDITIONS

• Playing with Shadows: An Introduction to Shadow Puppetry - site by Kennedy Center - ArtsEdge. Site is designed to introduce American children to this Asian art form of Chinese Shadow Puppetry. Learn about how the puppets are made, how the shadows are cast using the screen and lighting, as well as typical stories and characters that have reoccurred in puppet shows for hundreds of years. (on Puppetry Links Page)

APRIL 2006 ADDITIONS

• Illuminated Middle Ages database presents several hundred
  recently digitized illuminated texts from French national library
  collections. Images are sorted out by theme. Texts date from the year 500 through the 1400s. (On Medieval Symbolism page)

• Singular Impressions: Monotype in America Presents various monotype artists and shows video segments - step by step process. From Smithsonian American Art Museum. (on Printmaking Links Page)

• Photographs From the African Diaspora from Museum of the African Diaspora. A mosaic version of a photograph by Chester Higgins Jr., composed of 2,000 images contributed by people from all over the world, is the centerpiece of the Web site. It is also possible to search by keyword. (located on Photography links page)

• The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo - PBS site includes a biography, photographs of the artist, a timeline, selections of her work with accompanying information, a list of related resources, and educational guides. (located on  Art of Mexico)

• Portrait Detectives from East Liverpool Museums - The Walker (alternate ULR). Learn how to look for clues as to who the person is, how they lived and more. More interactive exhibits using the collections of Liverpool Museums. (located on Just for Kids)

• Bellini: Creating & Re-creating - Interactive from Indianapolis Museum of Art. See the Renaissance way of making copies. Explore new technologies of looking below the surface of the paint. (On Renaissance Age of Discovery Links page)