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Art

Great Buildings Collection
http://www.greatbuildings.com/
Amazing site of buildings, architects, and architectural places world-wide.

Online tutorial - color and its use in print and online
http://www.poynter.org/special/colorproject/color.html
Online guide explaining color theory and how to use it in design through examples and exercises.

Impressionists
http://www.biography.com/impressionists/
Includes essays, photos, artwork, and links. Interactive tours of one painting of major artists, analyzing themes, colors, and brushstrokes. Quiz to test your knowledge of Impressionist art.

Secret to Drawing Cartoons
http://www.cartooncorner.com/artsfolder/howtacartoon/cartooning.html
Emmett Scott teaches his secret on drawing cartoons.

American Ceramic Society
http://www.acers.org/cic/cLinks/clinks.asp?pageid=40
Ceramic links.

Ceramics Monthly
http://www.ceramicsmonthly.org/
A magazine on ceramics, current and back issues.

Pottery Making Illustrated
http://www.potterymaking.org/
A magazine on pottery, current and back issues.

Discover Decoupage
http://www.decoupage.org/
By the National Guild of Decoupeurs.

Papier-Mache by Rozani
http://www.rozani.com/mache.htm
A few projects created with papier-mache.

Art Design & Career Employment
http://art.nmu.edu/department/AD_Career-Jobs.html
Many links for information on art careers.

General Resources

Alliance for Lifelong Learning http://www.allianceforlifelonglearning.org/er/acdir_index.html
The leading academic websites reviewed and catalogued by university experts.

Art Encyclopedia
http://www.artcyclopedia.com
Explore 125,000 great works of art.

Art Museum Network
http://www.amn.org/
Links to many museums, collections, and exhibitions.

ARTSEDGE
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org
A wealth of K-12 web-centered curriculum units, lessons, activities, and resources grouped by grade level for integrating arts into every content area.

Blue Web'N
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/
Many available lessons, activities, projects, resources, references, and tools.

EDSITEment
http://edsitement.neh.gov
Guide to the best humanities resources on the web in the categories of art, world language, history, social studies, literature, and language arts.

Museums Online
http://www.museumstuff.com/
Museums and resources from around the country.

Our Earth as Art [jpeg, tiff]
http://earthasart.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.htm
The USGS and NASA have teamed up to bring the public stunning images of the Earth taken by the Landsat-7 satellite and the Terra Satellite's Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER). Visitors can browse the images by continent or alphabetically. The images can be used as supplementary materials during educational lectures about rock outcrops, deserts, deltas, clouds, glaciers, and many other earth science topics. The website allows users to download the images as posters and wallpaper.