Visual Arts Content Standards and Frameworks

California Visual Arts Standards and Frameworks

• California Visual Arts Standards - https://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/vapacontentstds.asp
• California Visual Arts Framework (In Revision) - https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/vp/cf/
• California Visual Arts Framework (2004) - http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/cr/cf/documents/vpaframewrk.pdf

Visit the new National Coalition for Core Arts Standards Website

• National Arts Standards Webpage - http://www.nationalartsstandards.org/
• Art Educators Standards - http://www.arteducators.org/research/nccas

Arts Standards

• Visual Arts4Learning - http://sites.google.com/site/visualarts4learning/
• Washington State Visual Arts Standards - http://www.k12.wa.us/arts/Standards/default.aspx
• Education World National Standards - http://www.educationworld.com/standards/national/arts/index.shtml

Visual Arts Resources

Getty Art

• Getty ArtsEdNet - http://www.getty.edu/education/
• Getty Education Site - http://www.getty.edu/education/for_teachers/
• Explore Art - http://www.getty.edu/art/
• Video Gallery - http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/videoGallery
• Make Art at Home - http://www.getty.edu/gettygames/downloads/

• ArtsEdge - http://www.artsedge.kennedy-center.org/
• New Home - https://www.kennedy-center.org/education/resources-for-educators/classroom-resources/
• Lessons - https://www.kennedy-center.org/education/resources-for-educators/classroom-resources/lessons-and-activities/
• Lesson Plans Search - http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/educators/lessons

Americans for the Arts - http://www.artsusa.org/

Tell Congress - http://www.americansforthearts.org/get_involved/advocate.asp

• CAEA - http://www.caea-arteducation.org/
• Advocacy - http://www.caea-arteducation.org/www/Pages/advocacy.html
• Art Education Links - http://www.caea-arteducation.org/www/Pages/links.html

California Local Resources

• California Arts Council - http://www.cac.ca.gov/
• California Arts Advocates - http://www.californiaartsadvocates.org/
• Arts for LA - http://www.artsforla.org/
• Arts Council: Napa Valley - http://www.artscouncilnapavalley.org/advocacy.shtml

National Gallery of the Arts Education Site - https://www.nga.gov/education/teachers.html

• National Gallery of the Arts Lesson Plan Search - https://www.nga.gov/education/teachers/lessons-activities.html
• NGA Kids Artzone - https://www.nga.gov/education/kids.html

Art Education Web Links

• PBS Student Art - https://www.pbs.org/show/art-21/
• Artists in Canada - http://www.artistsincanada.com/
• Behind the Masks: Exploring Culture and Self Through Art and Poetry - http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=395
• The-Artist.org - http://www.the-artists.org/

Arts Work - http://artswork.asu.edu/

Project Zero - Howard Gardner

• PZ Harvard - http://www.pz.harvard.edu/
• Visble Thinking - http://www.pz.harvard.edu/projects/visible-thinking

Children's Art Museums

• Artsonia Children's Art Portfolios - https://www.artsonia.com/teachers/
• International Child Art Foundation - http://www.icaf.org/

Art Teaching Resources

• Kinder Art - http://www.kinderart.com (K-12)
• Arts Attack - http://www.artsattack.com/
• Art in Action - - http://www.artinaction.org/
• Meet the Masters - https://meetthemasters.com/

Visual Thinking Strategies - http://www.vtshome.org/

• Metropolitan Museum of Art Learn - http://www.metmuseum.org/learn
• Multicultural Art - http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/subject_matter/arts/multicultural/
• Arts - http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/subject_matter/arts/
• World Artist Directory - http://worldartistdirectory.com/
• National Art Education Association - http://www.arteducators.org/learning
• Arts For All: Designing a Learning Community – http://handbook.laartsed.org/home/index.ashx
• Americans for the Arts - http://artsusa.org/
• National Endowment for the Arts - http://www.arts.gov/
• The Arts Education Partnership - http://www.aep-arts.org/
  • ArtAccess at the Art Institute of Chicago - http://www.artic.edu/artaccess/
  • Arts for Learning - http://www.arts4learning.org/
  • Creativity Express - http://www.madcaplogic.com/?gclid=CKCam429pJUCFQykagodNSNRk