Library | Brooklyn Campus

Arts Education On-Line
This site maintained by the California Arts Project is geared for elementary to college level art educators. The site provides links to art education associations, currciulum examples, case studies, a teacher chat line, software and book reviews.

Art Teacher Connection
The subtitle of this site is "art through technology". This site provides a wide range of lesson plans and case studies for art teachers. Includes links to art advocacy groups and museum sites.

Getty Center For Education in the Arts
ARTSEDNET is geared for art teachers K-12. The site contains sample lesson plans and curriculum ideas, images of contemporary works of art, a chat line, articles on support for art education, an art publication list, and links to arts programs, case studies and museum sites.

Artcyclopedia
Search for over 5000 artists represented on museum sites, image archives and other online resources.

ArtLex Visual Arts Dictionary
Provides definitions of art terms and topics as well as links to related images. For instance, a search for "landscape" will result in examples of related works of art.

Art Supplies

New York Central Art Supply
A local legend of a store that has served NYC artists for many years. Many custom services, knowledgable staff, and the best selection of paper in the city.

Pearl Paint
This is the home page for a major artists supply house located at 308 Canal Street in Manhattan, New York. The page contains a list of store locations, lists and descriptions of art supplies and ordering information.

Utrecht Art Supply
National chain with good prices, many student-grade materials, and good prices on canvas and linen.

Artists & Art Movements

The Art Bank
Biographies and bibliographies for over 35,000 artists and about 1,000,000 images. Focus on art from the 10^th to the 18^th century.

Art in Context
This site includes daily updates on exhibition announcements, press releases, images, and artists with links to museums, galleries, and dealers.

Artnet
Gallery listings, online exhibitions, books, artists, auctions, articles. Magazine updated daily.

Askart
Extensive information about over 30,000 American artists. Also covers museums, movements…

Musée du Louvres
The English page of the Louvres in Paris. Extensive image bank.

Associations

American Institute of Graphic Arts
The American Institute of Graphic Designers is an organization for graphic designers, and design students. The site includes chapter news, conference announcements, exhibitions, and design competition.

The Artist League Of Brooklyn
This is the home page of this organization whose members include social workers, artists, students, designers, and teachers. This organization promotes fine arts in the Brooklyn area. The site includes information about current and past exhibitions.

DUMBO Arts Center (DAC)
Non-profit exhibition space and artist resource that organizes the DUMBO arts festival every October, with open studios, theatre, fashion, performances, music, and more.

National Association of Independent Artists
The NAIA purpose is to “enhance the economic well-being of people who exhibit their work at high quality outdoor and indoor art and/or fine craft shows, encourage creative expression and artistic excellence, and expand public awareness, appreciation and acquisition of fine art and fine craft.

NCECA (National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts)
This Web site is maintained by an organization for educators in the area of ceramic arts. Information about student competitions, events, exhibitions, and conferences is provided.

Center for Book Arts
Manhattan-based exhibition space and workshop for the book arts.

Janet Maher Book Arts Links
This site provides links to book arts organizations, exhibitions, and bookshops. It also includes topical essays on book art, illustrated book projects, and tutorials.

Ceramic Art Web Sites

Ceramic Arts
This site is an all purpose clearinghouse for information on ceramics for the student, collector and artist. The site contains book reviews, tips on techniques, material sources, artist interviews and biographies, links to educational institutions and associations, links to ceramic fairs and exhibitions and a glossary of ceramic terms.

Yahoo Ceramics
This site includes useful links to smaller ceramic related sites. Over 80 ceramic artists are featured. Short lists of events, publications, schools and museums.

Electronic Art Journals

Exhibitions

Artnet
Founded in 1989 and available on the Web since 1995, Artnet provides information about artists, exhibits, auctions, etc.

Artabus
With Artabus you can have access to virtual galleries displaying fine arts, drawings, paintings, sculptures... Just walk around the galleries, choose some paintings, zoom on them and get some info about them.

Olga’s Gallery
Their site claims to be “one of the largest and most comprehensive online collections.” On their pages you will find over 8,000 works of art. “We are dedicated to bringing you quality information about artists and their artwork from all around the world.”

Image Databases

Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO)
This site provides an image resource of selected objects in member museum collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, the Library of Congress and the Frick Collection.

Digital Image Center
Developed at the University of Virginia Library, this site exists as both a physical space and a clearinghouse of Web-based image resources.

Web Museum Network
This site covers special exhibitions at the Louvre with links to image collections around the world. Most useful is the "famous paintings" index which provides access to images by artist, theme, country and period.

Images: Clip Arts

Art Journals At The Brooklyn Campus Library

For information about the specific volumes and years that the library owns, please consult the list of journals in the Periodical Department.

Metasites

ADAM
The art, design, architecture and media information gateway provides links to numerous Web sites in the arts and media. These resources may be searched by keyword and by artist.

Artsource
Includes resources on topics in art and architecture including bibliographies, e-journals, art projects, electronic exhibitions, links to image collections, and art organizations.

The Mother of All Art History Link Pages
Created by the University of Michigan, this site provides links to major art history programs worldwide; art topics, arts organizations, links to image collections, guide to online exhibitions, an annotated list of museums worldwide, lists of art related journals, links to libraries and research center, and art publishers.

Worldwide Arts Resources
Gateway to art museums, exhibitions, art agencies, art education programs, employment opportunities, art supplies and artist index.

Art Museums & Galleries

The British Museum
Houses a vast collection of world art and artifacts. A large part of the collection can be viewed online.

Brooklyn Museum
This site provides information on the history and permanent collections of the musuem with a focus on key objects in select curatorial departments. An annotated list of special events exhibitions is included.

Guggenheim Museum
This site provides information about current exhibitions and museum programs.

Metropolitan Museum of Art
This site includes information on current and past exhibitions for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cloisters; programs and tours for adults and children, and subject access to select works in the collection.

Musée du Louvres
Already cited, this site provides a window into the famous museum.

Museum of Modern Art
This site includes small visual summaries of current exhibitions, educational programs and tours, access to holdings in the archives and the library, lists of books and art libraries, publications, and brief accounts of permanent collections.

Virtual Library Museums Pages
Links to museum sites worldwide by location, title and musuem type are provided at this site.

The National Gallery of Art
The Washington,D.C. museum houses one of the finest collections in the world, featuring major achievements in painting, sculpture, and graphic arts from the Middle Ages to the present

The Smithsonian
Composed of sixteen museums and galleries, the National Zoo, and numerous research facilities in the United States and abroad.

WWW Resources: Art Resources

Art Education

Art Supplies