Art web links

This link which could be useful for VLE

http://www.artcoursework.com/

This might be worth a look...lots of school art sites with virtual art
http://www.kids101-art.co.uk/

Teachers TV programme (top 10 on the web - secondary art)

http://www.teachers.tv/video/4947

A not exhaustive web site list for art galleries......use as a start point

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/
http://www.npg.org.uk
http://www.tate.org.uk/
http://www.ysp.co.uk
http://www.leeds.gov.uk/artgallery/
http://www.hullcc.gov.uk
http://www.yorkartgallery.org.uk
http://www.manchestergalleries.org/
http://www.whitechapel.org/
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/
http://www.nationalgalleries.org/
http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/visual-arts/
http://www.bmag.org.uk/
http://www.vam.ac.uk/
http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/

further afield
http://www.guggenheim.org/
http://www.moma.org

Resource for contemporary art

http://www.axisweb.org/

directory of british art and art galleries

http://www.britisharts.co.uk/galleries.htm

Resources for kids

A fun one for KS3

http://www.artsconnected.org/toolkit/index.html

This site has a database of 7,500 great artists and tells where their work can be
located. The database is catalogued in by: chronological order, Movement, medium,
subject, nationality, and alphabetical order.
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/
An adventure in Art that's interactive. You can download other adventures from the
Eduweb : Company.
http://www.eduweb.com/insideart/index.html

This is an easily accessible site that shows biographies and samples of well known
artists' work.
http://www.bloorstreet.com/300block/8art.htm

Quite a nice looking web school web site with art gallery....
http://www.wearekingswood.co.uk/mediaLibrary.php

another art web link

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blast/art/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/art/
50 Suggested Websites for Art

another found list - from teachers tv 50 useful art sites

Museums

1. Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr/llv/commun/home_flash.jsp?bmLocale=e...
Discover the Louvre

2. Pompidou Centre
http://www.cnacgp.fr/Pompidou/Accueil.nsf/Document/HomePa...
This site showcases some of the magnificent pieces of art at the Centre national d'art
et de culture Georges Pompidou. Its aim is to create an original cultural institution in
the heart of Paris completely focused on modern and contemporary creation.

3. National Gallery Online

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/education/itt/index.htm...
This website showcases projects created by ITT (Initial Teacher Training) students
using National Gallery paintings. This website provides all the information and
resources ITT students need to use the National Gallery's unique collection for
creative learning in the classroom.

4. Guggenheim Collection
http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artists.html
View the works of famous artists as well as read about them in their biographies.

5. Washington DC National Art Gallery for Kids

http://www.nga.gov/kids/kids.htm
http://www.nga.gov/kids/zone/collagemachine.htm
Go through the guided tours of some art works and try your hand at some interactive
art activities. They also have a great collage machine where you can make your own
collage online using existing clip art available.

6. Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

http://www.bmag.org.uk/
This website contains information about the collections, exhibitions and events at
Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery. The Education section contains a link to the
separate Schools Liaison website, which offers resources for teachers planning a visit
and details of the object loans service.

7. The National Portrait Gallery

http://www.npg.org.uk/live/educatio.asp
This section of the National Portrait Gallery's website has details of the education
programmes and services run by the gallery for schools, adult groups and families.

8. The Metropolitan Museum (MET)

http://www.metmuseum.org/education/index.asp
Explore and learn about art. Look at art history timelines and educational activities.

9. The Tate Online

http://www.tate.org.uk/learning/schoolsteachers/
http://www.tatetools.com/
All the resources you need for teaching art in the classroom, from Teachers’ packs to
Teacher Training.

10. The 24 Hour Museum

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/
The 24 Hour Museum is the UK’s National Virtual Museum. The site promotes
publicly funded UK museums, galleries, archives and heritage attractions and seeks to
get the message about Britain's great culture to a broad online audience nationally and
worldwide.

Institutions/Associations

11. Young at Art

http://www.arts.ac.uk/young-at-art/
An innovative art, design and communication project run by the London Institute.
Find out about the art courses for young people in the London area for students 11 -
18 years of age.
12. Engage – Gallery Education
http://www.engage.org/
Many galleries and art museums around the world now have gallery education
departments, and gallery education programmes organised and delivered by gallery
education staff, working with artist-educators, artists, teachers, professional partners
and community leaders.

13. Curriculum Online – Art Case Study

http://www.curriculumonline.gov.uk/CaseStudies/artcasestu...
In these inspiring and thought-provoking multimedia presentations, teachers share
their experiences of using ICT at KS3. This video shows a year 9, mixed ability Art
class being taught to manipulate digital photography and investigate the concept of
exaggeration through the use of ICT.

14. National Society for Education in Art and Design (NSEAD)

http://www.nsead.org/home/index.aspx
NSEAD is the leading national authority concerned with art, craft and design across
all phases of education in the United Kingdom. The sdite offers, for a single
subscription, the extensive benefits of membership of a professional association, a
learned society and a trade union.

15. DfEs Standard Site

http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/schemes2/secondary_art/?...
This site is home to the QCA/DfES schemes of work.

Games

16. Create a Creature

http://www.afordturtle.com.cnchost.com/CreateACreature/in...
Learn how to draw a silly creature by following step-by-step illustrations. A new
creature will be featured each week, along with a new drawing tip. Submit your own
creature, and it could show up on the web site.

17. Inside Art

http://www.eduweb.com/insideart/index.html
A game, which explores a painting from the inside out. You 'escape' from the painting
after answering ' Who? / What? / Where? / How? ' questions.
18. Show Me
http://www.show.me.uk/
This site is packed with games and resources generated by the UK's museum, gallery
and heritage sector. There is a section designed to help teacher’s access relevant
content quickly and easily.

19. A. Pintura: A Art Detective

http://www.eduweb.com/pintura/
Become a detective and identify the artist of a mystery painting. Teaches the concepts
of composition, style and subject needed to solve the puzzle.

20. Cartoon Critters

http://www.cartooncritters.com/
Offers dozens of cartoons to print and colour, and colouring books with pictures that
you can colour online. Also includes graphic step-by-step instructions on how to draw
cartoons, online games you can play, and crafts.

21. CBBC – Art

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/art/
A fun website from the BBC. It has interactive games, facts about famous artists,
things to make and do. You can send in your questions.

22. Art Attack

http://www.hitentertainment.com/artattack/
Lots of ideas for fabulous artwork all with step-by-step instructions. You can send in
your pictures to this CITV site. Great for teachers who need inspiration.

23. Snowflake Designer

http://ww2.unime.it/dipart/i_fismed/wbt/mirror/ExplrSci/d...
Create your own snowflake design with this program that uses six-sided symmetry.

24. Treacletart
http://www.treacletart.net
Treacletart is an online digital art competition for schools, offering digital cameras as
prizes. Pupils can download a starter image and creatively alter it using any type of
graphics software. Entries are displayed in the gallery on the website.
Resources

25. McREL Resources

http://www.mcrel.org/lesson-plans/arts/index.asp
McREL draw upon the best of more than 30 years of education research to create
practical, user-friendly products that help educators create classrooms that provide all
students with opportunities for success.

26. Colour Matters

http://www.colormatters.com/
Budding artists and anyone interested in colour will want to see how colour affects
our mind and body, its use in design and art, plus lots more. Explains additive and
subtractive colour systems, how the eye sees colours, and how other cultures view and
use colours.

27. Exploring Leonardo

http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/LeoHomePage.html
A site all about Leonardo Da Vinci. It is divided into four major areas: Inventor's
Workshop; Leonardo's Perspective; Leonardo: Right to Left; and What, Where,
When? This site introduces the elements of machines, and lets students explore how
these elements can work together.

28. DareArts
http://www.darearts.com/1_about-darearts.shtml
http://www.darearts.com/1_kids-zone-darearts.shtml - Kidzone
Dare Arts stands for Discipline, Action, and Responsibility in Education.
At a time when juvenile social problems have increased, school budget cuts have
resulted in decreased arts education. DareArts Foundation helps fill this gap through
an innovative 5-year course of study to complement the school system.

29. The Art Room

http://www.arts.ufl.edu/art/rt_room/index.html
This site offers opportunities for students to create, discover, imagine, invent and to
learn. The @rt room is designed around the idea of "activity" centre’s that encourage
kids to create, to learn and to explore new ideas and things on their own.

30. ArtisanCam
http://www.artisancamnorth.org.uk/kidzone/ - kidzone
http://www.artisancamnorth.org.uk/
You can watch artists live from their studios or working on location as they go about
their business. Once live watching is finished, their work is captured in a time-lapse
video, which summarises their activities.
31. Portrait Detectives
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/nof/portraits/index.ht...
Find out how to interpret clues in portraits to find out who people are, when and how
they lived, and even what they thought about themselves.

32. Chalk Face

http://www.chalkface.com/category_Art.html
The aim of this site is to make the best teaching ideas available to every teacher in the
most practical way. Combining new technology with old, we produce detailed lesson
plans complemented by photocopy-master worksheets across the secondary
curriculum.

33. Artists and Makers

http://www.artistsandmakers.com/staticpages/index.php?pag...
The Artists & Makers website is a gateway to the arts in Sussex and the surrounding
counties. It features a What’s On guide, listing visual arts events alongside poetry,
music and theatre, news about the Artists & Makers Festival, and regular exhibitions
& other events organised by RAG.

34. Access Art

http://www.accessart.org.uk/
The resources on this site are targeted at different age ranges from four to adult, for
use in schools, at home and the wider community. Subject areas include sculpture,
colour, installation art, drawing, photography and visual literacy.

35. Digital Palette

http://www.content.networcs.net/digipal/flash/digipal_int...
The main purpose of this site is to inspire and support teachers who are experimenting
with the use of computers in Art and Design. There are art ideas, case studies and an
image bank.

36. Impressionism
http://www.impressionism.org/
A very interesting site if you want to find out about Impressionist painters and their
paintings. Teachers can download or view online excellent lessons for primary aged
children, which introduce the major themes of impressionism.

37. A Lifetime of Colour

http://www.sanford-artedventures.com/index.html
Resources for creative individuals from beginner to advanced. Ranges of techniques
are considered such as using colour and drawing portraits. You can try the hands-on
activities. There are artist biographies and lesson plans.
38. BBC - Painting the Weather
http://www.bbc.co.uk/paintingtheweather/
An online gallery of over 100 of the UK's best weather pictures featured on this BBC
site. There are in depth commentaries of 14 key works and artist biographies. You can
zoom in on each picture.

39. Winsor & Newton

http://www.winsornewton.com/index2.php
Hints and techniques to enable you to explore your artistic abilities with watercolours,
oils, acrylics, pastels and colour mixing. You will find it in the Creative Encyclopedia.
Use the drop down box to locate the techniques section.

40. Mondrimat
http://www.stephen.com/mondrimat/
You can experiment here with space and colour in accordance with the theories of Piet
Mondrian.

41. Aboriginal Bark Painting

http://www.aboriginalartonline.com/art/bark.php
An art teacher's lesson plan with the objective of creating contemporary bark
paintings in the style of primitive cave artists and the Aboriginal people.

42. Art and Design at Key Stage 3 / 4 and GCSE

http://www.juliastubbs.co.uk/
Julia Stubbs, an Advanced Skills Teacher, in Art and Design has produced this website
of exemplar art and design work by students in the UK.

43. Young Embroiderers

http://www.hiraeth.com/youngembroiderers/
A textile art and craft site which has project ideas for children and young people,
some great ideas for in the classroom and long term projects.

44. Surrealism
http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~malek/Surrealism/index.htm...
Unnecessarily image intensive, but this site does have interesting information on
selected Surrealists artists. They are RenT Magritte, Yves Tanguy, Giorgio de Chirico,
Salvador Dali and Pierre Roy.
Search Engines

45. Artcyclopedia
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/
This site’s mission is to become the definitive and most effective guide to museum-
quality fine art on the Internet. You can access the comprehensive index of every artist
represented at hundreds of museum sites, image archives, and other online resources.

46. Ask for Kids

http://www.askforkids.com/
Ask for Kids is a fast, easy and kid-friendly way for kids to search online. Ask for
Kids uses natural-language technology that allows kids to ask questions and perform
web searches, in the same way they would ask a parent, friend or teacher.

47. Untold London

http://www.untoldlondon.org.uk/
This site searches for the history of London's many races and faiths. We focus on
London museums, but also look at archives, galleries and the history work of
communities themselves

Examination Boards

48. OCR
http://www.ocr.org.uk/OCR/WebSite/docroot/index.jsp
OCR is responsible to the Government as one of the UK's leading awarding bodies
providing qualifications to students at school, college, in work or through part-time
learning programmes. This website allows both teachers and candidates access to their
course information.

49. AQA
http://www.aqa.org.uk/
AQA is one of the leading examination boards. This website provides information on
all the courses AQA offer. Within their main site there is e-AQA website, which is the
part for the centres (schools and colleges). It gives authorised staff direct access to
information related to their centre. It is designed to provide a flexible resource that
will make it easier for centre’s to communicate with AQA.

50. Edexcel
http://www.edexcel.org.uk/home/
Edexcel website provides comprehensive information about all their qualifications.
There is an Ask Edexcel part on the site where teachers, students or parents can
submit a question and received an answer from the customer service team.