Smarthistory is a free multi-media web-book that “uses multimedia to deliver unscripted conversations between art historians about the history of art.

The website contains...

• audios and videos (about works of art found in standard art history survey texts) as well as
• text and
• still images.

An impressive resource for Art Practitioners and Learners.

Visit http://www.smarthistory.org/ to evaluate this resource.
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Explore and Learn was developed as the educational part of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, and has an ever changing and large source of materials.

A lot of what is available, on this website, draws inspiration from the particular exhibitions currently featured. New materials get added often and full educational materials are created to support practitioners who are able to visit the museum.

Resources include interactive Flash presentations of...

• particular artists;
• themes;
• cultures...

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Benoit Philippe, recently published an ebook entitled Creative Exercises for Artists and Everyone Else.

Creative Exercises for Artists and Everyone Else contains seventeen specific exercises for artists and aspiring artists. The exercises cover a range of drawing and painting techniques that almost anyone can do regardless of current skill level. Included with the publication are templates on which you can try the exercises.

Creative Exercises for Artists and Everyone Else might spark ne...

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If you haven't done so yet, take a look at the National Gallery of Art (Washington, USA) interactive online Art Zone you should take some time to do so!   

There are currently sixteen applications that allow learners to create beautiful artwork that can then be printed or even animated!

Note: Adobe Shockwave Player is needed to use these applications. 

I recommend that if you can, take the time to investigate the creative options for each application (I've spent more time than perhaps...

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The folks at smARThistory have produced a free multimedia webBook that offers an interactive survey of art history.
The online resource combines traditional images with audio and videos.
Users can sort through content by...

• time period,
• style and
• artist
  

...and find the information that they want.
Visit http://smarthistory.org/.

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If they don't know already, artists soon find out how hard it is to become recognized.

• How do they gain publicity?
  
• How do they find...
• a publishing house,
  
• a gallery,
  
• a producer,
  
• a model agency?

To become recognized as an artist they do not only need talent. They need connections and money to receive the publicity they deserve. Connections, for many, are in fact even more important for their career than money. The internet today can make a great step forward for everyone with an artistic talent....
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ArtBabble, a new video website for the museum & art world, has opened its virtual doors.
Created by the Indianapolis Museum of Art, ArtBabble brings together videos from various arts institutions (MoMA, SFMOMA, PBS, the New Public Library, etc) and presents them to users in a clean, organized way. The footage, often produced in high definition, features...

• interviews with...
• artists and
• curators,
• documentaries and
• art installation videos.
  

Collectively, they give learners a more direct way to “expe...
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Ten links to web sites of interest to art teachers and to homeschooling parents are presented here. This page will be updated from time to time, so check back again.
Visit http://www.arts.ufl.edu/art/rt_room/teach/teach_links7.html.

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