Sunday, August 8, 2010

Resources: Incredible Art Department

An artist I know from MNartists suggested I pass this website onto you. The Incredible Art Department http://www.incredibleart.org is a sprawling site chock full of art lesson and project ideas for preschoolers all the way to college level, links to other art related sites, newsletters and much, much more. It's a large site with A LOT of content, so there's a bit of informational overload. It can be a bit overwhelming to figure out what to look at first. I suggest setting aside some time to explore it, because there's definitely a lot of good stuff there. For such a large website I found it easy to navigate--the design is simple, there are tabs at the top of the page with drop down menus to choose from, and if you want to go back to the main page you just click on the picture of mona lisa at the top of the screen. It's aimed at school teachers, so the lessons would need to be modified to your smaller groups/individual students.