Students will enjoy the suggested hands-on classroom activities included in these downloadable resources, which will inspire and encourage their own portrait creations.

Open Studio aims to make contemporary arts education accessible to teachers and classrooms across the nation and around the world. Mark Bradford explains his inspiration for the project in the video above.

"Students create a claymation movie about the life of a famous artist that answers the question "What If…?" After researching their assigned artist, groups decide on an alternate path for an artist and showcase that through the claymation movie. This lesson is strong in creativity and innovation. "

"By providing a directory of children's art collections from around the world, art educators, museum and gallery directors, researchers, parents, and children, are able to learn from, and contribute to, an international community of child art collectives. "

new K-8 search tool

How can we as teachers promote an environment where students can freely/safely remix content to personalize their learning?

Inspired by Native American architectural forms and the Big Horn medicine wheel in Wyoming, Wheel is composed of ten tree forms arranged in a circular shape that is fifty feet in diameter.

Sharing Creative Works is a new comic about Creative Commons. It aims to explain the basics of CC licensing as simply as possible to a general audience, including children.

Remix means to take cultural artifacts and combine and manipulate them.

Being an "agent of civilization" is one of the many roles ascribed to teachers. If we are to have any expectations of producing a well-educated, well-prepared generation of deep-thinking, resourceful leaders, then it is essential to give students an opportunity to review, respond to, and ultimately revere the power of the human imagination-past and present. There may be no better way to promote this than to study, understand, and exult in masterpieces.

Regarded as a founding member of the Chicano Art and Los Angeles mural movements of the 1970's.

Yoko Ono wants a smiling face snap of every single human being in the world. Including yours! http://www.smilingfacefilm.com

A Manifesto for the Planet, A Ribbon of Images to Surround the World, Created by Individuals in 43 Countries - so far.

A Wiki site for Arts Education information and resources - Living Sky School Division, Canada.

Kendra Farrell's wiki for her digital imagery class.