Fine Arts Department
Resources and Links
Below are listed just a sample of the many fine arts Internet links. Most of these sites also contain links. If you know of a link that would be especially helpful to teachers and students, please send us an email and we will include it in our list. Every attempt is made to keep links current. If you discover a link that is not working, please contact George Jones.
Table of Contents
Outstanding Site for All Fine Arts Areas
Fine Arts Center for Educator Development - http://finearts.esc20.net
General Interest to All Fine Arts Areas
- Fine Arts Facilities
- State Board for Educator Certification
- TEA & UIL Side by Side
- Texas Education Agency - Fine Arts Website
- Texas State Legislature
- UIL
- Texas Coalition for Quality Arts in Education (TCQAE)
- National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts
- National Endowment for the Arts
- Americans for the Arts - national organization to make arts more accessible to every adult and child in America; works with cultural organizations, arts and business leaders and individuals to provide leadership, education and information that will encourage support for the arts and culture in our nation’s communities
- ARTSEdge Curriculum Studio - national arts education standards and curriculum materials, programs, strategies, and other information relating to the arts and national education goals
- Arts Wire - sponsored by New York Foundation for the Arts; communications network for the arts community that has, at its core, the strong voices of artists and community-based cultural groups; provides artists and arts organizations with training, planning, and technical support in telecommunications; forum for creating and experiencing online art
- Coalition for Music Education (Canada)
- Internet Public Library - the first public library of and for the Internet community
- Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation - non-profit organization dedicated to promoting instrumental music nationwide by partnering with businesses, schools, and communities to provide new and refurbished musical instruments to qualified schools and individual students
- National Endowment for the Arts - arts features, interviews, Gallery, and Writer's Corner; exceptional work being done by artists and arts organizations across the country, resources, links, field reports, and archived features on artists and arts organizations; online Federal information and services, including links to Federal arts resource
- National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts - non-profit arts organization whose mission is to identify emerging artists and assist them at critical junctures in their educational and professional developments, and to raise appreciation for, and support of, the arts in American society
- National Music Foundation - dedicated to American music and the people who bring it to us
- VH1 Save The Music - dedicated to improving the quality of education in America's public schools by restoring and supporting music programs in cities across the country, and by raising public awareness about the importance of music participation for our Nation's youth
Music Links
- UIL Region 3
- Texas Music Educators' Association
- Coalition for Music Education (Canada)
- Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation
- Music Education Online Parent/Advocacy
- Music Education Online (K-12)
- National Music Foundation
- Ongoing Projects in Music Outreach and Advocacy
- VH1 Save The Music
- Association for Technology in Music Education
- Music Educators National Conference
- Dallas Symphony Orchestra Kids
- Children's Music Web - links to a children's music list, concert calendar, a music magazine, and more
- Classical Music - WWW Virtual Library: classical music reference site that is maintained by students at Georgetown Prep and includes sound files, text references and links to other classical music resources
- Education at the Met - Metropolitan Opera: offers an innovative network of programs designed to help further music and arts education in schools and communities; includes information on training teachers to work with students to create original operas
- Hop Pop Town - for ages 3 - 10; experimental project focusing on potential of new technologies for educational applications; employs MIDI and shockwave files; best explored with faster Internet connections; allows children to improvise musical sequences, combine sound with pictures; includes writing pages that take material from musical games
- Indiana University School of Music - university webpage has information about the music programs, archives, and libraries at Indiana as well as many useful links
- The Instrument Encyclopedia - University of Michigan: a project of the university's Cultural Heritage Intitiative for Community Outreach (CHICO) and included in the Musical Heritage Network; an extensive database of instruments may be accessed through material type, alphabetical, geographical, or hierarchical options; also includes Resources for Educators
- Live from Lincoln Center - Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts: resources to use in conjunction with the broadcasts include program notes, a bulletin board, upcoming events, and Backstage at Lincoln Center; the center's home page also features professional development opportunities and student programs in its Lincoln Center Institute
- Music Educators National Conference (MENC) - information about the organization, plus teacher's guides, a job center, publications, and innovative programs sponsored by MENC
- Music History 101 - University of Michigan: a part of the Internet Public Library hosted by the School of Information; featuring works of great composers and stylistic trends from the Renaissance to the present; includes RealAudio sound files
- Music Hotlist - The Franklin Institute Science Museum : links to a variety of music web sites; no annotations, but organized into helpful categories such as Opera, Classical, Jazz, Reggae, Instruments, Gregorian Chant, Miscellaneous, and Teacher Resources
- Music! The Universal Language - links to music images and animation galleries, fun music ideas, music software, music games, instruments, jazz musicians, blues, and more
- Musica Antiqua - Iowa State University: group of musicians who recreate the music of the Renaissance and Middle Ages, large collection of 12th to 17th century replica instruments including the Hurdy-Gurdy, Dulcian, Rebec, Recorder, Crumhorn, and many other old instruments; includes its history, construction, and how each is played; also provides recorded samples in .wav format
- Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA) - information on the organization's leadership, membership, policies/guidelines, annual clinic/convention, music industry, advocacy, job placement, and the areas of band, orchestra, vocal, elementary, and college
- Virtual Tours - University of Michigan: a project of the university's Cultural Heritage Intitiative for Community Outreach (CHICO) and included in the Musical Heritage Network; uses RealAudio and slideshows in the following tours: Gamelan, Mariachi del Corazon, Salsa Stories, and Great Lakes Powwows
- Voices from the Dust Bowl - US Library of Congress American Memory Collection: Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection documenting the lives of Dust Bowl migrants living in Farm Security Administration (FSA) camps in California in 1940-41; includes a collection of audio titles (available in both RealAudio and .wav formats), a list of over 100 song titles with full text and recordings made in an FSA camp, interviews, recordings of camp meetings, and much more
Band Links
Orchestra Links
Choir Links
Elementary Music Links
Art Links
- Dallas Museum of Art
- North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts
- Texas Arts Educators Association
- Andy Warhol Museum - permanent collections of art and archives; temporary exhibitions, which may include the work of other artists, are presented on a regular basis
- ArtsEdge - The Kennedy Center: aiming to help artists, teachers, and students gain access to share information, resources, and ideas that support the arts as a core subject area in the K-12 curriculum; links to content guide, news break, web spotlight, curriculum studio, community center
- Art Museum Network - a comprehensive list of the largest museums in North America; information about the current exhibitions in different museums and gifts sold in the museum stores; with frames in the site
- ArtNet - Nebraska Consortium for Discipline-Based Art Education: a project of Prairie Visions, established by the Nebraska Art Teachers Association; links to lesson plans, projects and programs, resources for teachers, and Nebraska artists showcase
- ARTSOURCE - networked resources on art and architecture as well as information submitted by librarians, artists, and historians
- Asian Art Museum of San Francisco - the largest museum in the western world devoted to the arts and cultures of Asia, information about the museum's history; collections, exhibitions, programs, and admission information
- Contemporary Art Museum, Houston - information about the museum's exhibitions, collections, history, art education programs, and publications
- Dallas Museum of Art - houses collections in ancient American, African, Indonesian, contemporary art, American decorative arts and more; links to the events and exhibits of the museum as well as the educational resource center
- Exploratorium, San Francisco - museum of science, art, and human perception with over 650 interactive projects, hands on exhibits; contains links to general information, schedules of events, programs, and a digital library of past exhibitions
- Exploring Leonardo- Museum of Science, Boston: an investigation of Leonardo da Vinci as a scientist, inventor, and artist with an introductory letter to teachers; designed for the Science Learning Network
- FineArt.com Features a searchable database of artists, galleries, museums and exhibits, including classifieds and member services
- How to "READ" a painting - art criticism skills to enrich a museum experience, objectives, assessment, resources and examples of student critiques
- Huntington Art Gallery - University of Texas: explore each floor of the Huntington's galleries in the Harry Ransom Center and the Art Building selecting galleries and collections that interest you; also review the exhibition schedule, educational programs, a list of the staff, and information on the Friends of the Huntington
- Library of Congress Exhibitions - exhibitions housed in LC and include Frank Lloyd Wright: Designs for an American Landscape and Women Come to the Front: Journalists, Photographers, and Broadcasters During WWII
- Louvre Museum - one of the world's most famous art museums; collections including Egyptian, Oriental, Greek, Roman and Etruscan antiques, Islamic art, sculptures, paintings, prints, drawings, etc.; links to the museum's publications and databases, admission information and more
- Metropolitan Museum of Art - one of the largest and finest art museums in the world, houses more than two million works of art; links to membership information, calendar, collections, exhibitions, news, educational programs, and more
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston - collections including African sculpture, American painting, ancient art, decorative arts, Impressionist paintings, textiles and costume and twentieth-century sculpture; links to Hirsch Library, calendar, information about films, lectures and special events and more
- National Gallery of Art - located in Washington, D.C.; houses European and American paintings, sculpture and decorative arts; information about the gallery's collections, exhibitions, programs, events, resources and more
- National Museum of American Art - includes research and educational resources, artworks, special exhibitions and a link to the Renwick Gallery
- North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts - programs, newsletters, art curriculum, and art education and museum links
- Origami Page - a definition of origami, information on what paper to use, types of folds, links to origami organizations, book reviews, and a Brief History of Paperfolding
- San Antonio Museum of Art - houses collections of Latin American, American, Asian, European and contemporary art; links to educational programs, calendar of events and other sites; information about membership and gift shop
- Smithsonian - composed of sixteen museums and galleries, topics ranging from air and space, history, fine arts, sculpture, postal communications, and more; links to events and activities, membership and shop information and resources
- Vatican Exhibit - Library of Congress: extensive text on many of the items contained in the Vatican exhibit
- WebMuseum - a collaborative work with a medieval exhibit, special exhibitions such as work by Paul Cezanne, and Famous Paintings with images and background information
- What is Art? - Sweet Briar College: a dicussion of "What is art?...What is an artist?" in easy to understand terms with links to information on art movements and artists.
Theatre Arts Links
- Texas Educational Theatre Association
- Theatre Arts Links
- Department of Radio-Television-Film - College of Communications, University of Texas at Austin: links to undergraduate and graduate school information, faculty, and facility and research centers
- Early Motion Pictures Collection - motion picture clips from the US Library of Congress archives; be warned however, films take an extremely long time to download
- Ford's Theatre National Historic Site - photos, history, and information on John Wilkes Booth; also includes the Gettysburg Address and more
- History of Costume - text and graphical online version of the book by Braun & Schneider, circa 1861-1880
- Japanese Theatre - Schanwecker's Guide to Japan: information on Kabuki, Noh, and Bunraku; also a link to Traditional Japanese Music and instruments
- Multimedia, Film, and Broadcasting Resources on the Net - Northwestern University Library: information on standalone and web based multimedia authoring tools, resources on traditional media broadcast, cable, satellite and film resources available on the internet
- 19th Century Stage - University of Washington, School of Drama: links to bibliographic references, historical references, and plays from the period
- Playbill Online - presented by American Express, links to theater news, theater listings in and off Broadway, feature stories, casting and job information, books, recordings, references, travel packages, celebrities and more
- Theater and Drama WWW Library - World Wide Web Virtual Library: broad range of professional, academic and recreational resources; links to journals, newsgroups, theater companies, academic and training institutions and more
- Tony Awards Online - links to awards winners, what is playing, theater news, plays video clips, features, database, forum, gallery, quiz and more
Dance Links
- African Music and Dance Ensemble - contains information about CK Ladzekpo, artistic director; and links to productions, history, workshops, and photos
- Ballet-Modern FAQ - the most frequently asked questions about ballet and modern dance answered in easy to understand terms
- CyberDance - a collection of over 2,000 links to classical ballet and modern dance resourses
- DanceArt.com - ballet and dance artwork, clipart, essays and more
- Dance Links - wide variety of dance-related links are provided, including a comprehensive listing of dance companies, dancers, funding, schools, publications and related links
- Lemon & Capers Morris - information about Morris dancing, which was invented in 13th century Russia
- Tap Dance Homepage - links to information about tap dance, company tours, who's who in tap, tap steps, tap history, and more