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THE PATRICK & BEATRICE HAGGERTY LIBRARY

 
WEBSITES FOR MMC ART STUDENTS
 
» Art Education, Artists, Resources
» Art Museums
 
ART EDUCATION, ARTISTS, ONLINE RESOURCES
 
Art Bridge
Artists and web designers combined their efforts to bring together the best art resources
 
Art Navigator
Search art resources by topic; from the University of Arts and Design Helsinki
 
Artcyclopedia
Provides artwork samples and biographical sketches of major historical and contemporary artists from around the world
 
Artesian Arts
A Scottish charity run by and for visionary, intuitive and grassroots artists who have lived a life excluded from the world of mainstream arts
 
ArtMail Milwaukee
Get a fresh piece of art in your emailbox every week
 
 Arts Wire
A network for the arts community and a forum for creating and experiencing online art; provides links to jobs, cultural databases, projects, galleries, artists' portfolios, web art, art site of the week, lessons; from the New York Foundation for the Arts
 
ARTtalk
A monthly newsletter from art material retailers in Canada and the US; has articles on painting, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, arts and crafts; with information on art history, current events and art world news
 
Athenaeum
An online tool and collection of thousands of artworks and artists
 
Cultural Policy & the Arts National Data Archive (CPANDA)
An interactive archive on the arts and cultural policy in the US, with data on artists, arts and cultural organizations, audiences and funding for arts and culture; from Princeton U.
 
Getty Education Institute for the Arts
Provides lesson plans, ideas, images for classroom use, advocacy articles to urge support for art education, connections to art educators worldwide
 
Google Art Project
Explore museums from around the world; discover view hundreds of works of art at incredible zoom levels, and even create and share your own collection of masterpieces
 
Library as Incubator Project
Madison-based project highlighting the ways artists and libraries can work together and support each other
 
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
 
Mother of All Art and Art History Links Pages
Has research resources, image archives, online art, art history departments, textual and liguistic resources, art museums, etc.
 
Mount Mary College Art Department
Provides sample lesson plans for Art K-8, including interdisciplinary lesson plans; searchable by grade level and subject
 
 National Art Education Association NAEA
The purpose of the NAEA is to promote art education through professional development, service, advancement of knowledge and leadership
 
Portal Wisconsin.org
A nonprofit, growing Website created by the Cultural Coalition of Wisconsin to provide free state resources in the arts, culture, history and the humanities
 
Public Art Archive
A sophisticated, searchable database for public artwork in the US
 
 Public Broadcasting System PBS
PBS page covering their programming in the arts
 
Windows to the Universe Art Archive
from the University of Michigan
 
 
Women Artists of the American West
An interdisciplinary resource featuring the contributions that women have made to the art and history of the American West; from Purdue University
 
 Yahoo! Directory>Arts
Links to thousands of sites, organized by categories such as art history, artists, awards, crafts, criticism and theory, design arts, museums and galleries, news
 
 
 
 
ART MUSEUMS
 
 Children's Museum of Indianapolis
Features online lessons in creative art projects of all types; allows creation of a multimedia puppet show to be posted on the web site
 
 Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Provides an imagebase of 82,000 digitized images; searchable by artist, country, period or subject
 
Getty Education Institute for the Arts
Provides lesson plans, ideas, images for classroom use, advocacy articles to urge support for art education, connections to art educators worldwide
 
 Kyoto National Museum of Japan
Provides online versions of its past exhibits and interactive tour of Japanese art for young students
 
 Louvre
Bienvenue au Musee du Louvre; provides virtual tours and selected works
 
 Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
A gateway to a comprehensive journey through the world of art and artists
 
 Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Provides digitized versions of over 2000 works; includes online art lessons and KidsWorld, with games and activities for children
 
Museum of Modern Art MOMA (New York)
A guide to exhibits, publications and educational resources
 
National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.)
One of the finest collections in the world covering major achievements in painting, sculpture, and graphic arts from the Middle Ages to the present
 
 National Museum of African Art (Smithsonian)
Exhibitions of contemporary African artists
 
 National Museum of American Art
The nation's first museum of American art, capturing the character and imagination of the American people
 
National Museum of Women in the Arts NMWA (Washington, D.C.)
View works by women artists from around the world from the museum's permanent collection; provides a 45 minute video tour of the permanent collection; a curator lectures on women artists, from the Renaissance through the 20th century
 
 Smithsonian American Art Museum
A collection with over 10,000 images; provides online exhibits such as on American photography, posters and works of art