March is Youth Art Month!
Parents, please encourage your child to use their imagination and create, create, create!
Children, please continue to be thoughtful and creative with your visual work! You will make people smile and appreciate the beauty you create.
These websites are for you to browse through and hopefully inspire you to explore more- on the internet, with books, magazines, and the world around you.
Enjoy! Art is everywhere.
www.portlandmuseum.org/
Portland Museum of Art
You have to visit our wonderful local museum! Fridays, 5-9 are free!!
www.nmwa.org/
National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C.
There is an ABC icon at bottom left of front page of website that is interesting - book arts in the classroom
www.fowler.ucla.edu/incEngine/?content=main
Fowler Museum at UCLA
This museum focuses on a collection of non-western art. Wonderful publications as well!
www.mootepoints.com/index.html
Cherryl Moote is an excellent book artist. Check out the galleries section.
www.mainearts.maine.gov/default.asp
Maine Arts Commission
Excellent for parents, artists and teachers as well as the mature student
www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm
Metropolitan Museum of Art presents a timeline of Art History
Simply unbelievable! Excellent resource tool for any student, teacher, parent, artist!
www.maineartseducation.org/
Maine Alliance for Arts Education
great for arts advocacy, grants, news- mainly for teachers, parents and artists
www.melissasweet.net/index2.php
Melissa Sweet’s website
She is a Maine illustrator - very “sweet” illustrations and some games to play too.
www.naea-reston.org/research_advocacy.html
National Art Education Association
Arts advocacy page- great for all those wishing to encourage more art in school
www.ruthasawa.com/index.html
Ruth Asawa
A sculptor I love and recently discovered! Amazing wire sculptures!!
www.tordboontje.com/
Tord Boontje
Another sculptor/designer I love!
Our fourth graders created some mobiles lightly based on some of his work. They were shown examples of his work as inspiration.
www.fullercraft.org/
A wonderful and small art museum in Brockton, Massachusetts
www.britishmuseum.org/default.aspx
The British Museum
A must-see if you’re in London! If you can’t get there, it’s a beautiful website- another excellent resource.
