Back to School Links

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Summer is winding down, and preparations for the start of a new school year are occurring all over the U.S. right now. To mark the occasion, here are a dozen or so links for both experienced art teachers and those starting on their teacher career.

To start, I want to give a shout . . . → Read More: Back to School Links

Web Sightings for May 2010

Let’s start this month’s collection of websites with The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum‘s new online database that contains images of the artist’s work, photographs, and correspondence from the museum’s collection and research center archive. In addition to browsing or searching the database, you can also save items in a “my favorites” file for later retrieval.

Make History . . . → Read More: Web Sightings for May 2010

Web Sightings for April 2010

Lego Explorer photo by kennymatic, CC Attribution License

To start off this month’s selection of Web sightings, here is a rather remarkable TED talk by child prodigy Adora Svitak who says the world needs “childish” thinking: bold ideas, wild creativity and especially optimism. A nice companion companion piece to Adora’s talk is Jonah Lehrer’s posting on . . . → Read More: Web Sightings for April 2010

ARTstor ~ The Digital Image Motherlode

I attended a training session today for Artstor, which can best be described as the digital image motherlode! In more formal terms, ARTstor is “a nonprofit digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences with a suite of software tools to view, present, and manage . . . → Read More: ARTstor ~ The Digital Image Motherlode

Web Sightings for March 2010

Lego Explorer photo by kennymatic, CC Attribution License

Let’s start this month’s installment of Web Sightings out with an amusing music video for the song “70 Million” by the Franco-American band Hold Your Horses!
How many of the reconstructed famous paintings or artists represented in the video do you recognize? (Thanks to Toni or whoever posted this video . . . → Read More: Web Sightings for March 2010

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