Fine Arts
Here are online fine arts resources the Newpapers in Education department has discovered. They are listed below – however, some sites may cover more than one area. If you know a site we don’t, feel free to contact us!
MOMA online activities
Modern teachers is a Web site designed to connect K-12 classroom teachers to MoMa resources and the collection. Also children five to eight can explore the collection with a visitor from outer space via “Destination: Modern Art.” Another feature, “Red Studio,” is for teens to read artist interviews, hear podcasts and find resources.
National Gallery of Art
A place where teachers and students can connect art and curriculum. Includes a research finder that you can search by curriculum, topic and artist. Feature lessons include Art & Ecology, 19th-century America, Self-Portraits in Art, Counting on Art, The Dutch Golden Age and much, much more! Includes game “Ancient Arcade” on gods and symbols from myths in art.
Animate Yourself
Founded in 2003, Gizmoz offers consumers a new generation of character-based visual expression for use across their digital lives. The Gizmoz service makes it easy and fun to create, customize, animate and share lifelike, 3D talking characters that enable individuals to put a unique face and voice to their digital communications.
Be Funky
Turn your photos into incredible artworks with just one click!
Shidonni
Shidonni is an innovative startup, developing the next generation of creative ‘virtual’ worlds for kids. Shidonni is providing a safe environment where kids and their parents can create imaginary worlds and animals, play games and interact with friends. Shidonni is based on unique proprietary patented algorithms and using Microsoft Silverlight.
Arts Connected Ed
Teaching tools for teachers: Explore the combined collections of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the Walker Art Center through hundreds of new features in ArtsConnectEd. Search over 100,000 resources in the Art Finder, including works of art, texts, audio, video, and interactive resources. Save and customize items in the redesigned Art Collector. Comment, tag and rate everything!
