Updated on March 9, 2017
These sites help high school students analyze the elements of different studio artistic styles and learn to appreciate how art moves us.
This interactive timeline of art history covers art periods from prehistory to the present from around the world. There are more than 900 essays accompanying the artwork to provide context of historic events, cultures, and how diverse civilizations encountered each…
This site offers an introduction to understanding abstract art through a variety of interactive resource. View works from the collection of the Illinois State Museum. It also highlights the career of Manierre Dawson, a pioneer of abstract art in the…
There’s an excellent set of resources for K-12 art teachers on North Carolina’s Museum of Art ArtNC site. The works of art provided illustrate some of the ways artists communicate stories through a visual language of color, line, shape and…
Tate Games are a variety of interactives to help kids learn about art, based on the work at the Tate Museum. You can see how Turner included everyday elements in his work, help bring The Secret Dancer to life, put…
Curious Corner is an Art Institute of Chicago Web site for kids ages 3-12. Explore and learn about art from around the world. Examine artwork more closely. Connect what you learn about artworks using creative activities. Parents and educators of…
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has an eye-popping ineractive site for kids. An interactive map lets them explore the museum galleries. Kids narrate behind-the-scene video clips of artwork. And the time machines takes them on a journey…
From site: Meet Raoudi, artist Henri Matisse’s perky schnauzer, in Matisse for Kids, a delightful on-line exploration of the beloved 20th century master’s bold, bright paintings. Along the way, you’ll earn props, patterns, and colors to use in creating your own…
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art offers two interactives to help students explore modern art, The Country Dog Gentlemen Travel to Extraordinary Worlds and SFMOMA ArtScope. The Country Dog Gentlemen Travel to Extraordinary Worlds – In this interactive feature, canine…
Detail Detective from the Getty Museum is an interactive kids can use to help them look for details in works of art. Several details are explored in each piece. Other games on the site have kids find differences of details…
From site: Learn about the 1930s through eight exhibitions: The Depression, The New Deal, The Country, Industry, Labor, The City, Leisure, and American People. Artworks from the Smithsonian American Art Museum collection are supplemented with other primary source materials such…
From site: Welcome to the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the only museum in the world dedicated exclusively to recognizing the contributions of women artists. The permanent collection comprised of more than 3,000 works provides a comprehensive survey…
From site: Art.Net (also known as Art on the Net) is a collective of artists helping each other to come up on the Internet and share their works on the World Wide Web. Artists create and maintain studios and rooms…
Unscramble the puzzle pieces to these famous works of art.
Artdaily.org is the first art newspaper on the Internet. For kids, there is news about the art world, links to museums, photographs and and an image gallery, reviews, puzzles – even an ArtWord search. You can also view famous works…
From site: A slideshow of Vincent Van Gogh’s work set to the song “Vincent” by Don McLean. It’s part of an art and creative writing lesson plan for the patients at Mississippi State Hospital at Whitfield.