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This arts resources web page is organized to provide links to curriculum resources for each of the areas served by the DISD Fine Arts Department. While we have made every effort to select the best possible resources to include on this page, DISD cannot guarantee the accuracy of the information presented, and assumes no liability for the information contained on these servers.
Key Resources
- American Choral Directors Association
- American Music Conference
- American String Teachers Association
- Arts Education Partnership on the World Wide Web
- ArtsUSA for the American Council for the Arts
- Association for the Advancement of Arts Education
- Educational Kinesiology Foundation
- International Association of Jazz Educators
- International Society for Music Education (ISME)
- MuSICA - Music & Science Information Computer Archive
- Music Education Research Base
- Music Education Search System
- National Art Education Association (NAEA)
- National Association of Teachers of Singing
- National Dance Association
- National Music Council
- www.oake.org/net
- TEA (Texas Education Agency)
- CEDFA (Center for Educator Development in Fine Arts)
- TCQAE (Texas Coalition for Quality Arts Education)
- TCA (Texas Commission on the Arts)
- UIL (University Interscholastic League)
- TAEA (Texas Art Educators Association)
- TAHPERD (Texas Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, & Dance)
- TETA (Texas Educational Theatre Association)
- Texas Music Educators Association
- GDAC (Greater Denton Arts Council)
- DISD Board Policy Online
- American Orff-Schulwerk Association
- OAKE (Organization of American Kodaly Educators)
- ArtsEdge
- Music Educators National Conference - MENC
- The Library of Congress Homepage
- Texas Cultural and Arts Network (TCAnet)
MIDI and Audio Files
- Standard MIDI Files on the Net by Charles Kelly
- Harmony Central MIDI Tools and Resources
- Mozart's Works in Midi Format
- Classical MIDI Archives
- Computer Karaoke Homepage
- The MIDI Farm
- Wai-Man Wong's Java Piano
Software and Multimedia Downloads
- Music Instruction Software by Brent Hugh
- Music Education Software
- Compumedia - A Multimedia Approach to Music Education
- Hypermedia Presentations
- Hyperstudio - Hyperstudio Player Download
- Hypercard Downloads - Department of Music Education - Westchester University
- World Lecture Hall - University of Texas
Research and Publications
- Computer Music Journal
- Music Resources - University of Indiana
- Resources of Scholarly Societies - Music
Other Music Resource Web Pages
- K-12 Music Resources for Music Educators by Cynthia Shirk
- Music Education Online
- Music Instruction Software by Brent Hugh
- Australian Arts On-Line
- Texas Cultural and Arts Network (TCAnet)
- Music Room of the Digital School
The following links were submitted by DISD Art Teacher Rhonda Sherrill:
ART LINKS
African American Museum, Dallas http://www.dallasblack.com
American Institute for Graphic Arts http://www.aiga.org/
American Museum of Art/Smithsonian http://AmericanArt.si.edu/
Amon Carter Museum Permanent Collection http://www.cartermuseum.org
Architecture & Design Museum/Los Angeles http://www.aplusd.org/
Art Center of Waco http://www.wacows.com
Art History Resources http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html
Art Materials Safety Information http://www.acminet.org/
Art Museum of Southeast Texas http://www.amset.org
Art Prints Inc. http://artprintsinc.com/
Art Studio, Inc. http://www.artstudio.org
Art Visuals http://artvisuals.tripod.com/
ArtTexNet http://www.arttexnet.com/
A.R.T. Studio Clay Comp http://www.artclay.com/any
The Art Institute http://www.aii.edu
Austin Museum of Art http://www.amoa.org
Barrett Kendall Publishing http://www.barrettkendall.com
Beckley Cardy/School Specialty http://www.beckleycardy.com/index.jsp
Bemiss-Jason http://www.bemiss-jason.com/
Blaffer Gallery: University of Houston http://www.blaffergallery.org
Blue Star Art Space http://www.bluestarartspace.org
Brooklyn Museum of Art http://www.brooklynart.org/
Carnegie Museum of Art/Pittsburgh http://www.cmoa.org/
Centre Pompidou http://www.centrepompidou.fr/Pompidou/Home.nsf/docs/fhome
Chrysler Museum of Art http://www.chrysler.org/
Cincinnati Art Museum http://www.cincinnatiartmuseum.com/
Cleveland Museum of Art http://www.clemusart.com/
Creative Paperclay Co. http://www.paperclay.com/
CRIZMAC Art & Cultural Education Materials, Inc. http://www.CRIZMAC.com/
Chroma http://www.chromaonline.com/
College Art Association http://www.collegeart.org/
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston http://www.camh.org
Corcoran Gallery of Art http://www.corcoran.org/
Crayola Creativity Center http://www.crayola.com
Crow Collection of Asian Art http://www.crowcollection.org
Dallas Center for Contemporary Art http://www.thecontemporary.net
Dallas Museum of Art http://www.dm-art.org
Davis Publications http://www.davis-art.com/
DecoArt http://www.decoart.com/
Department of Art/Rice University http://www.rice.edu/houston/#houart
Dick Blick Art Materials http://www.dickblick.com:80/?AOL=1018978623
Diverse Works http://www.diverseworks.org
Ed Hoy’s International-Tools for Creativity http://www.edhoy.com/
El Paso Museum of Art http://www.elpasoartmuseum.org
Eli Whitney Museum http://www.eliwhitney.org/
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco http://www.famsf.org/
Fiskars http://www.fiskars.com/
FotoFest, Inc. http://www.fotofest.org
Frick Collection http://www.frick.org/
Frye Art Museum http://www.fryeart.org/
George Washington Carver Museum & Cultural Center http://carvermeseum.org
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum http://www.okeeffemuseum.org/
J. Paul Getty Museum http://www.getty.edu/museum/
Gibbes Museum of Art http://www.gibbes.com/
Glencoe/McGraw-Hill Publishers http://www.glencoe.com/
Golden Artists Colors http://www.goldenpaints.com/
Grace Museum http://www.thegracemusuem.org
Guggenheim Collection-Artists http://www.guggenheim.org
Heard Museum/Native American Art http://www.heard.org/
High Museum of Art http://www.high.org/
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden http://www.hirshhorn.si.edu
Indianapolis Museum of Art http://www.ima-art.org/
INSEA/International Society for Education through Art
http://cspace.unb.ca/insea/
J. L. Hammett Company http://www.hammett.com/
Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art/University of Texas
http://www.utexas.edu/cofa/bma
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art http://www.kemperart.org
Kimbell Art Museum/Ft. Worth http://www.kimbellart.org/
Lawndale Art Center http://www.NeoSoft.com/~lawndale
Le Louvre http://www.louvre.fr/
Los Angeles County Museum of Art http://www.lacma.org/
Mark Hardens’s Artchive http://www.artchive.com
McKinney Avenue Contemporary (The MAC) http://www.the-mac.org
McNay Art Museum http://www.mcnayart.org
Meadow Museum Collection http://www.meadows.smu.edu
Metropolitan Museum of Art http://www.metmuseum.org
Mexic-Arte Museum http://www.main.org/mexic-arte
Milwaukee Art Museum http://www.mam.org/
Minneapolis Institute of the Arts http://www.artsMIA.org
Mint Museum http://www.mintmuseum.org/
Modern Art Museum of Ft. Worth http://www.mamfw.org
Museographs/The Lazar Group
http://www.mindspring.com/%7Elazargrp/museographs.html
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago http://www.mcachicago.org
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego http://www.mcasandiego.org/
Museum of Fine Arts/Boston http://www.mfa.org/
Museum of the Gulf Coast http://www.pa.lamar.edu/museum/gulf.html
Museum Links http://www.pp.iij4u.or.jp/~murai/1e.homepage.html
Museum of Modern Art http://www.moma.org
Museum of Photographic Arts http://www.mopa.org/
NAEA/The Electronic Gallery
http://www.umsl.edu/%7Eartlmcmi/naea2002/index.html
NAEA/The Student Chapter Website
http://www.naea-reston.org/students/index.html
National Art Education Association http://www.naea-reston.org
NAMTA/National Art Materials Trade Association http://www.namta.org/
NASAD/National Association of Schools of Art & Design
http://www.arts-accredit.org/nasad/default.htm
National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature http://www.nccil.org
National d’Arte Moderne http://www.paris.org/Musees/Beaubourg/
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC http://www.nga.gov
National Gallery of Art, London http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk
National Museum of Wildlife Art http://www.wildlife.art.org
National Museum of Women in the Arts http://www.nmwa.org/
National Portrait Gallery http://www.npg.si.edu/
New Braunfels Museum of Art and Music http://www.nbtx.com/nbma
New Orleans Museum of Art http://www.noma.org/
Norman Rockwell Museum http://www.nrm.org/
North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts
http://www.art.unt.edu/ntieva
Olga's Gallery Art History for Children http://www.abcgallery.com
Orange County Museum of Art http://www.ocma.net/
The Phillips Collection http://www.phillipscollection.org/
Prado/Museo del Prado http://museoprado.mcu.es/
The Renwick Museum http://nmaa-ryder.si.edu/collections/exhibits/renwick25/
Rijksmuseum/Amsterdam http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/br_index_mac.htm
Salvador Dali Museum
http://www.salvadordalimuseum.org/cgi-bin/SoftCart.exe/index.html?E+dali
San Antonio Museum of Art Permanent Collection http://www.sa-museum.org
San Diego Museum of Art http://www.sdmart.org/
SAX Arts & Crafts http://www.artsupplies.com/
Scratch Art http://www.scratchart.com/
Seattle Art Museum http://www.seattleartmuseum.org/
Skutt Ceramic Products http://www.skutt.com/
Sid Richardson Collection of Western Art http://www.sidrmuseum.org/
Smithsonian Institution http://www.si.edu/
South Texas Institute for the Arts http://www.stia.org
Southwest Alternate Media Project http://www.swamp.org
Southwest School of Art & Craft http://www.swschool.org
Stark Museum of Art http://wwwstarkmuseumofart.org
State Russian Museum http://www.rusmuseum.ru/eng/
Studio Museum of Harlem http://www.studiomuseuminharlem.org/
Tandy Leather/Tandy Crafts http://www.tandycrafts.com/
Tate Gallery/London http://www.tate.org.uk/home/default.htm
Texas Art Education Association http://www.coe.uh.edu/taea
Texas Tech University: Landmark Arts
http://www.art.ttu.edu/artdept/lndmrk.html
Textures Gallery http://www.texturesgallery.com
The Art Institute of Chicago http://www.artic.edu
The Menil Collection http://www.menil.org
The Metropolitan Museum of Art http://www.metmuseum.org
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston http://www.mfah.org
Uffizi Gallery/Florence http://www.uffizi.firenze.it/welcomeE.html
United Art & Education http://www.UnitedNow.com/
Universal Color Slide Co. http://www.universalcolorslide.com/
Van Gogh Museum/Amsterdam http://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/
Victoria & Albert Museum http://www.vam.ac.uk/
The Vincent van Gogh Gallery http://www.vangoghgallery.com
Visual Art Scholastic Event http://www.ccisd.net/vase
William Benton Museum of Art http://www.ucc.uconn.edu/~wwwwbma/
Wyeth Center/The Farnsworth Art Museum http://farnsworthmuseum.org/
Wyeth Hurd Gallery http://www.wyethhurd.com/DANCE LINKS
Dance Art Museum of America http://www.danceartmuseum.com
Dance Educators of America http://www.deadance.com/
NASD/National Association of Schools of Dance
http://www.arts-accredit.org/nast/default.htm
National Dance Association http://www.aahperd.org/nda
Texas Association for Health, PE, Recreation & Dance http://www.tahperd.org
Texas Dance Educators’ Association http://www.tddtea.orgMUSIC LINKS
American Classical Music Hall of Fame http://www.ClassicalHall.org/
American Music Conference http://www.amc-music.com
American Institute of Musicology http://www.tempomusic.com/aim/
American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers http://www.ascap.com/
American String Teachers Association http://www.astaweb.com
Association of Texas Small School Bands http://www.atssb.org
Broadcast Music Inc./BMI http://www.bmi.com/home.asp
Children’s Music Network http://www.cmnonline.org/passiton.htm
Christmas Carol Quiz
http://www.night.net/christmas/f-name-tune.html#Q22
The Classical Composers Archive
http://voyager.physics.unlv.edu/webpages2/picgalr2.html
The Classical Composer’s Database
http://utopia.knoware.nl/~jsmeets/abc.htm
Classical Midi Archive http://www.prs.net/midi.html
The Classical Music Pages http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/classmus.html
DSOKids/Dallas Symphony Orchestra http://www.dsokids.com/
Educational Cyber-Playground http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/
Energy in the Air: Sounds from the Orchestra
http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/5116/
Friends of Copyright Education
http://www.law.duke.edu/copyright/face/music/index.htm
Fun Music Ideas http://www.funmusicideas.com
Gary Lamb Music http://www.garylamb.com/
Guitar & Accessories Marketing Association http://www.discoverguitar.com/
Houston Grand Opera http://www.houstongrandopera.org
Hop Pop Town http://www.kids-space.org/HPT/index.html
IAEKM/International Association of Electronic Keyboard Manufacturers www.dentonisd.org/site/default.aspx?domainid=1111
International Foundation for Music Research http://www.music-research.org/
International Society for Music Education http://www.isme.org/index.shtml
International Drama/Theater and Education Association
http://educ.queensu.ca/~idea/
Kodaly Educators of Texas http://www.oake.org/ket/index.htm
Mozart Effect http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/dailard/mozartconnect/
Music & Entertainment Industry Educators Association http://www.meiea.org/
Music Education Online http://www.childrensmusicworkshop.com/
Music Educators National Conference http://www.menc.org
MENC/State Affiliates http://www.menc.org/connect/stateinf.html
Music Publishers Association of the U.S. http://www.mpa.org/Music Teachers National Association http://www.mtna.org/index1.htm
Music Time Periods
http://www.plainfield.k12.in.us/hschool/webq/webq89/index.htm
The Musical Instrument Encyclopedia
http://www.lehigh.edu/zoellner/encyclopedia.html
National Academy of Arts & Sciences http://grammy.com/
NAMM/National Association of Music Merchants http://www.namm.com/
NASM/National Association of Schools of Music
http://www.arts-accredit.org/nasm/nasm.htm
National Association of Teachers of Singing, Inc. http://www.nats.org/
The New York Philharmonic/Kidzone! http://www.nyphilkids.org/main.phtml?
Philosophy of Music Education Review
http://www.music.indiana.edu/som/music_ed/pmer.html
Playmusic.org/Dallas Symphony Orchestra http://www.PLAYMUSIC.ORG/
Piano 300: Celebrating Three Centuries of People & Pianos www.dentonisd.org/site/default.aspx?domainid=1111
Public Domain music materials http://www.pdinfo.com
Sesame Street Music Works
http://www.sesameworkshop.org/sesamestreet/sitemap/0,5939,,00.html
Sonny's Blues: http://www.fsu.edu/~CandI/ENGLISH/webquest2/blues.htm
Take Note: Center for Teaching & Learning about the Orchestra/NY Philharmonic
http://www.symphonyworks.net/takenote/
Technology Institute for Music Educators
http://www.ti-me.org/indexNODOM.html
Texas Music Educators Association http://www.tmea.org
Texas Music Teachers Association http://www.tmta.org
Texas Private Music Educators Association http://www.tpsmea.org
University Interscholastic League http://www.uil.utexas.edu/mus/index.html
VH1 Save the Music http://www.vh1.com/insidevh1/savethemus/THEATRE LINKS
http://www.aitaiata.org/profilen.htm
American Alliance for Theatre & Education http://www.aate.com/
American Theatre Web http://www.americantheaterweb.com/
Broadway Theatre Archive http://www.broadwayarchive.com/
Drama Teachers Resource Room http://www3.sk.sympatico.ca/erachi/
Educational Theatre Association http://www.edta.org
Folger Shakespeare Library http://www.folger.edu/education/teaching.htm
http://www.arts-accredit.org/nast/default.htm
Playbill On-Line http://www.playbill.com/
Texas Educational Theatre Association http://www.tetatx.com
The World Wide Virtual Library/Theatre and Drama http://www.vl-theatre.com/
Theatre Central http://www1.playbill.com/cgi-bin/plb/central?cmd=start
Theatre Direct Int’l/Broadway Classroom http://www.broadwayclassroom.com/
Theatre Resources on the Internet/The New York Public Library
http://www.nypl.org/research/lpa/internet/theatretop.htm#TabofCon
Theatre USA http://theatrenara.org/theatreusa/
University Interscholastic League
http://www.uil.utexas.edu/aca/drama/index.htmlTEXAS ADVOCACY/OTHER LINKS
Art on Art-Texas Arts Event Calendar
http://www.arts.state.tx.us/caltca/calendar.cfm
Arts Council of Northeast Tarrant County http://www.artsnetc.org
Bath House Cultural Center http://www.bathhousecultural.com
Center for Education Development in the Fine Arts http://www.esc20.net
Cultural Arts Council of Houston/Harris Co. http://www.cachh.org
Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center http://www.guadalupeculturalarts.org
Irving Arts Center Permanent Collection http://www.irving.net/iac/tour
Kerr Arts and Cultural Center http://www.kacckerrville.com
Lake Austin Fine Arts http://www.lakeaustinfinearts.com
San Antonio Arts in Education Task Force http://www.saysi.org
Texarkana Regional Arts & Humanities Council http://www.trahc.org
Texas Accountants & Lawyers for the Arts http://www.talarts.org
Texas Alliance for Education & the Arts http://www.eduarts.org
Texas Artists Museum Society http://www.art-tams.com
Texas Association for Museums http://www.io.com/~tam
Texas Bandmasters Association http://www.txband.com
Texas Coalition for Quality Arts Education http://www.txarts.net/tcqae
Texas Commission on the Arts http://www.arts.state.tx.us
Texas Congress of Parents and Teachers Reflections Program http://txpta.org
Texas Education Agency http://www.tea.state.tx.us
Texas Fine Arts Association: Jones Center for Contemporary Art www.dentonisd.org/site/default.aspx?domainid=1111
Texas Folklife Resources http://www.main.org/tfr
The Children’s Museum of Houston http://www.cmhouston.org
Young Audiences of Greater Dallas http://www.yadallas.org
Young Audiences of Houston http://www.yahouston.org
Young Audiences of Southeast Texas http://www.geocities.com/yasetxNATIONAL ADVOCACY/OTHER LINKS
A Celebration of Neurons: An Educator's Guide to the Human Brain
About the 50 states http://www.50states.com/
http://www.ascd.org/readingroom/books/list.html#brain
American Academy of Arts & Sciences http://www.amacad.org
Americans for the Arts http://www.artsusa.org
ARC International-The Art Renewal Center http://www.artrenewal.org
Artnetwork http://www.art-network.co.uk
Arts Education Ideas http://www.aeideas.com/
Arts Education Partnership http://aep-arts.org
Arts Education Resources from Artslynx http://www.artslynx.org/artsed/
Arts Journal: Daily Arts News http://www.artsjournal.com/
Arts Recognition & Talent Search http://www.nfaa.org/
Arts Wire http://www.artswire.org
Arts with the Brain in Mind http://www.ascd.org/framebooks.html
ArtsEdge/Kennedy Center http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/artsedge.html
ArtsEdNet/The Getty’s Art Education Web Site http://www.getty.edu/artsednet
Artsvision http://www.artsvision.com
Association for the Advancement of Arts Education http://www.aaae.org/
Certificate Creator http://www.certificatecreator.com/
Certificate Maker http://www.asd.com/asd/edconn/certif/certif.htm
Champions of Change: The Impact of the Arts on Learning
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/champions/
Chely Wright Foundation: Reading, Writing & Rhythm http://www.rwandr.org/
CyberSleuth-a Search Engine for Children http://cybersleuth-kids.com/
From the Top http://www.fromthetop.org/sorry.asp
FunBrain-Mind Games for Kids http://funbrain.com/
Gaining the Arts Advantage: Lessons from School Districts that Value Arts
Education
http://publications.ccsso.org/ccsso/publication_detail.cfm?PID=264
Harvard Project Zero http://www.pz.harvard.edu/
Internet for the Fine Arts http://www.fine-art.com
Jobs2Teach http://www.jobs2teach.doded.mil/
National Assembly of State Arts Agencies http://www.nasaa-arts.org
National Association for Educational Progress/The Arts
http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/arts/
The Mars Millennium Project http://www.mars2030.net/
National Endowment for the Arts http://arts.endow.gov
National Endowment for the Humanities http://www.neh.fed.us/
National Congress of Parents & Teachers http://www.pta.org
National School Boards Association http://www.nsba.org/
National Standards for Arts Education
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/professional_resources/standards/nat_standards_main.html
National Teacher Recruitment Clearinghouse http://www.recruitingteachers.org/
SuccessCertificates.com http://www.successcertificates.com/
Teaching with the Brain in Mind (book by Eric Jensen)
http://www.ascd.org/readingroom/books/list.html#brain
The Arts and Children: A Success Story (video with Meryl Streep
http://publications.ccsso.org/ccsso/publication_detail.cfm?PID=261
The Imagination Site
http://www.uen.org/themepark/html/imagination/folk.html
U.S. Copyright Office/The Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/copyright/
U.S. Department of Education http://www.ed.gov
USSSEA/United States Society for Education through Art
http://www.arts.ohio-state.edu/ArtEducation/USSEA/intro.html
Virtual Reference Desk
http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/reference/index.html
World Wide Arts Resources http://wwar.com
Young Audiences http://www.youngaudiences.org/