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General Art

Architect Studio 3D: Developed and designed by the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust and Educational Web Adventures.

Art Links on the World Wide Web

The World Artist Directory: Directory, art tutorials, artists forum, Art Kids Rule! And much more.

Visual Arts

ArtCyclopedia: The Guide to Museum-Quality Art on the Internet: This site serves as a comprehensive index to the online exhibits of thousands of artists. Search by artist's name or browse the A to Z listing. Entries include links to museums, image arc

Art History Resources on the Web: Arranged by time period and/or geographical region.

A Brush with Wildlife: Interactive art site.

Mark Harden's Archive: A collection of articles and some 2,300 scans of art images by more than 200 artists. Also includes changing online exhibitions, verbal/visual commentaries, and reviews of commercially available art CD-ROM products.

Smithsonian American Art Museum Art Information

Stripcreator: Make a Comic: Allows users to create and save their own comic strips.

Web Museum: an online art tour. The Famous Paintings exhibition includes an artist index, glossary, and themes index.

World Myths and Legends in Art: Collection of images from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts inspired by mythology from around the world. Includes downloadable curriculum.

World Wide Arts Resources: Comprehensive resource list with categories such as artist index, galleries, museums, exhibitions, commercial arts, arts publications, art schools, film, crafts, literature and more.

Dance

American Ballet Theatre's Online Dictionary: Dance terms defined in detail with Quick Time illustrations.

Music

Classical Net: A point-of-entry into a wide array of informational files about classical music-over 3400 files at Classical Net and over 2400 links to other classical music web sites.

Essentials of Music: Has overviews of the six main periods in music history and includes biographies of composers as well as some audio exerpts of classical music.

Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns: A history of this distinctly American form of music to accompany the film,. Jazz in Time "places jazz against the backdrop of American history." Included are audio clips of many jazz performers (Real Player), and extensive b

The Red Hot Jazz Archive: A history of jafzz before 1930.

Origami

Origami Theme Page: Links to origami sites from the Community Learning Network.

Photography

artsMIA: Get The Picture: Learn about the art of photography from the Minneapolis Institute of Art

Photography @national geographic .com

The Short Courses: Digital photography instructional site.

Last Modified on November 12, 2019

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